NOTE GOG. 



&quot; Lastly, I assure myself, your lordships have a noble feeling of me, as a 

 member of your own body, and one that, in this very session, had some taste of 

 your loving affections, which, I hope, was not a lightening before the death of 

 them, but rather a spark of that grace, which now in the conclusion will more 

 appear. 



&quot; And therefore my humble suit to your lordships is, that my penitent sub 

 mission may be my sentence, and the loss of the seal my punishment ; and that 

 your lordships will spare any further sentence, but recommend me to his 

 majesty s grace and pardon for all that is past. God s holy spirit be amongst 

 you. Your Lordships humble servant and suppliant, 



April 22, 1621. &quot; FR. ST. ALBAN, Cane.&quot; 



The which submission being read, first by the clerk, and afterwards repeated 

 by the Lord Chief Justice ; the house was adjourned ad libitum, to the end, the 

 whole house being a committee, it might be the better debated, whether the said 

 submission were a sufficient confession for the lords to ground their censure on. 



Their lordships being all agreed that the Lord Chancellor s submission gave 

 not satisfaction to their lordships, for that his lordship s confession therein was 

 not fully nor particularly set down, and for many other exceptions against the 

 submission itself, the same in sort extenuating his confession, and his lordship 

 seeming to prescribe the sentence to be given against him by the house ; their 

 lordships resolved, that the Lord Chancellor should be charged particularly 

 with the briberies and corruptions complained of against him, and that his 

 lordship should make a particular answer thereunto ; but whether his lordship 

 shall be brought to the bar, to hear the charge, or that, respect being had to his 

 person (as yet having the King s great seal), the charge shall be sent unto his 

 lordship in writing, it was much debated. 



And the Lord Chief Justice returning to the Lord Chancellor s place, his 

 lordship put it to the question, viz. whether the charge shall be sent to the Lord 

 Chancellor in writing, or the Lord Chancellor brought to the bar, to hear the 

 same ; and agreed, by most voices, the charge to be sent to his lordship. 



Memorandum, That during the time the whole house was a committee, the 

 collections of corruptions charged upon the Lord Chancellor, and the proofs 

 thereof made by the three committees according to the order of the 19th April 

 instant, was read by Mr. Attorney General. 



And the said collection (without the proofs) was now first read by Mr. 

 Attorney, and then sent to the Lord Chancellor by Mr. Baron Denham, and 

 him the said Attorney General, with this message from their lordships: That 

 the Lord Chancellor s confession is not fully set down by his lordship in the 

 said submission, for three causes : 1. His lordship confesseth not any particular 

 bribe nor corruption. 2. Nor sheweth how his lordship heard of the charge 

 thereof. 3. The confession, such as it is, is afterwards extenuated in the same 

 submission ; and therefore the lords have sent him a particular of the charge, 

 and do expect his answer to the same with all convenient expedition. 



Here followeth the said collection, viz. Corruptions charged upon the Lord 

 Chancellor, with the proofs thereof. 



1. In the cause between Sir Rowland Egerton, knt. and Edward Egerton, 

 the Lord Chancellor received five hundred pounds, on the part of Sir Rowland 

 Egerton, before he decreed the same ; proved by the depositions of Sir Rowland 

 Egerton : of John Brooke, who deposeth to the providing of the money, of pur 

 pose to be given to the Lord Chancellor, and that the same is delivered to 

 Mr. Thelwall, to deliver to the Lord Chancellor : of Bevis Thelwall, who deli 

 vered the five hundred pounds to the Lord Chancellor. 



He received from Edward Egerton, in the said cause, four hundred pounds ; 

 proved by the depositions of Sir Richard Yonge, knight, Sir George Hastings, 

 knight, Rolphe Merefeild, and Tristram Woodward. 



2. In the cause between Hody and Hody, he received a dozen of buttons, of 

 the value of fifty pounds, a fortnight after the cause was ended ; proved by the 

 depositions of Sir Thomas Perient, knight, and John Churchill, who speaks of 

 a greater value, by the report of Hody. 



