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&quot; That your petitioner made humble suit unto the Right Honourable Francis 

 Viscount St. Alban, now Lord Chancellor of England, to have the benefit of a 

 subject, to recover his ancient inheritance, by the ordinary course of the laws. 



&quot; That the now Lord Chancellor took from your petitioner four hundred pounds 

 of money in gold, and fifty-two pounds, ten shillings, in silver plate, which 

 money was accepted by the said Lord Chancellor, saying, that your petitioner 

 did not only enrich him, but also lay a tie upon his lordship to do your petitioner 

 justice in his rightful cause. 



&quot; That afterwards the said Lord Chancellor sent for your petitioner, and did, 

 by great oaths and protestations, draw your petitioner to seal an obligation to 

 his lordship of ten thousand marks, to stand to his lordship s award, for all the 

 lands whereof Sir John Egerton died seized only, but not for any other of your 

 petitioner s lands. 



&quot; That afterwards your petitioner was divers times sent for by Robert Shar 

 peigh, then steward of his lordship s house ; and your petitioner was several 

 times offered, that, if your petitioner would then presently pay eleven hundred 

 pounds in ready money ; that is to say, a thousand pounds for his lordship, and 

 a hundred pounds for the said Sharpeigh, that then your petitioner would have 

 all his lands decreed unto him, which your petitioner could not then presently 

 pay in ready money. 



&quot; That afterwards the said Lord Chancellor did not only confirm unto the 

 said Sir Rowland the lands which he then held of your petitioner s inheritance, 

 being worth six hundred pounds per annum ; but the said Lord Chancellor did 

 also take away from your petitioner more lands, worth fifteen thousand pounds, 

 and decreed the same also unto the said Sir Rowland Egerton, who did not 

 make any title thereunto before the said bond taken, and before the said 

 unlawful decree made. And the said Lord Chancellor did also decree, that the 

 said bond of ten thousand marks, made by your petitioner to the said Lord 

 Chancellor, in his lordship s own name, should be set over and delivered to the 

 said Sir Rowland Egerton, who should sue the same in the Lord Chancellor s 

 name, and recover upon the same to his own use. 



&quot; And the said Lord Chancellor did further decree, that your petitioner shall 

 not take benefit of the statute of five thousand pounds, made by the said Sir 

 Rowland to perform the said will ; and your petitioner is restrained, by the said 

 decree, from the benefit of a subject, to recover his right, by the ordinary course 

 of the common law, without any cause of equity set forth in the said decree. 



&quot; That your petitioner having spent six thousand pounds in suit of law, and 

 being deprived of all his said evidences, and being utterly impoverished by the 

 evil dealing of the said Lord Chancellor, and by the indirect practices of the 

 said Sir Rowland, is likely to be xitterly defrauded of all his ancient inheri 

 tance, contrary to the common justice of the land, except he may be relieved 

 herein by this high court of parliament. 



&quot; Your petitioner humblv prayeth, that the said Sir Rowland Egerton may 

 be ordered to produce, and bring forth upon oath, all such indentures of 

 uses, writings, and evidences, as he hath, or any other hath to his use, 

 concerning your petitioner s said lands, and whereby he claimeth any 

 estate in your petitioner s lands, to the end your honours may judge 

 thereof, and to do therein further as to your grave wisdoms shall seem to 

 stand with justice.&quot; 



The which petition being read, and affirmed by the said Edward Egerton, 

 upon his oath, to be true ; the said Edward Egerton was examined also in open 

 court. 



Robert Sharpeigh, Esquire, was also sworn, and examined in open court. 



[From the Tract.] 



Mercurii, 21st Martii, 1620. Sir Robert Philips reports from the committee 

 to examine Keeling and Churchill, who informed of many corruptions against 

 my Lord Chancellor. 1. In the cause between Hull and Holman : Hull gave 

 or lent my lord lOOOJ. since the suit began. 2. In the cause between Worth 



