NOTE C. G G. 



minus firmata est disciplina militaris periculo Quinti Mtuimi, quam miserabili 

 supplicio Titi Manlii. The discipline of war was no less established by the 

 questioning of Quintus Maximus, than by the punishment of Titus Manlius. 

 And the same reason is in the reformation of justice ; for the questioning of 

 men in eminent places hath the same terror, though not the same rigour with 

 the punishment. But my cause stays not there ; for my humble desire is, that 

 his majesty would take the seal into his hands, which is a great downfall, and 

 may serve, I hope, in itself for an expiation of my faults. 



Therefore, if mercy and mitigation be in your lordships power, and no way 

 cross your ends, why should I not hope of your favour and commiseration ? 

 Your lordships will be pleased to behold your chief pattern, the King our 

 sovereign, a king of incomparable clemency, and whose heart is inscrutable for 

 wisdom and goodness ; and your lordships will remember, there sate not these 

 hundred years before a prince in your house, and never such a prince, whose 

 presence deserveth to be made memorable by records and acts mixed of mercy 

 and justice. Yourselves are either nobles (and compassion ever beateth in the 

 veins of noble blood) or reverend prelates, who are the servants of him that 

 would not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. You all sit 

 upon a high stage, and therefore cannot but be sensible of the change of 

 human conditions, and of the fall of any from high place. 



Neither will your lordships forget that there are vitia temporis, as well as 

 vitia hominis, and the beginning of reformation hath the contrary power to the 

 pool of Bethesda ; for that had strength to cure him only that was first cast in, 

 and this hath strength to hurt him only that is first cast in ; and for my part, I 

 wish it may stay there, and go no further. 



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 lightning before the death of 

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

 appear : and therefore my humble suit to your lordships is, that my penitent 

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

 your lordships would recommend me to his majesty s grace and pardon for all 

 that is past. God s holy spirit be among- you. 



[From the Journals.] 



Die Jovis, videlicet, 3 die Maii, Domini tam spirituales quam temporales, 

 quorum nomina subscribuntur, praesentes fuerunt : 



p. Carolus Princeps Walliae, etc. 



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



p. Archiepus. Eborum. Capit. Justic. Locum tenens. 



The gentleman usher and the serjeant at arms attending this house reported, 

 that (according to the appointment of their lordships yesterday) they repaired 

 last night unto the Lord Chancellor, whom they found sick in bed ; and they 

 signified unto him their lordships pleasure ; and said they were sent to summon 

 him to appear here before their lordships this morning, by nine of the clock j 

 who answered, that he is sick, and protested he feigned not this for an excuse ; 

 for, if he had been well, he would willingly have come. 



The lords resolved to proceed notwithstanding against the Lord Chancellor ; 

 and the King s Attorney having read the charge and confession, it was put to 

 the question whether the Lord Chancellor be guilty of the matters wherewith he 

 is charged or no ; and it was agreed by all, nemine dissentiente, that he was 

 thereof guilty. 



And, to the end the lords might the more freely dispute and resolve what 

 sentence to pass upon the Lord Chancellor for his said offences, the court was 

 adjourned ad libitum. 



The house being resumed, and the Lord Chief Justice returned to his place, 

 it was put to the question, whether the Lord Viscount St. Alban (Lord Chan- 





