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cellor) shall be suspended of all his titles of nobility during his life, or no j and 

 it was agreed per plures, that he should not be suspended thereof. 



The lords having agreed upon the sentence to be given against the Lord 

 Chancellor, did send a message to the House of Commons, by Mr. Serjeant 

 Crewe and Mr. Serjeant Hitcham, that the lords are ready to give judgment 

 against the Lord Viscount St. Alban, Lord Chancellor, if they, with their 

 Speaker, will come to demand it. 



In the mean time the lords put on their robes ; and answer being returned of 

 this message, and the Commons come, the Speaker came to the bar, and 

 making three low obeisances, said, &quot; The knights, citizens, and burgesses of the 

 Commons house of parliament have made complaint unto your lordships of 

 many exorbitant offences of bribery and corruption committed by the Lord 

 Chancellor. We understand that your lordships are ready to give judgment 

 upon him for the same. Wherefore I, their Speaker, in their name, do humbly 

 demand and pray judgment against him the Lord Chancellor, as the nature of 

 his offence and demerits do require.&quot; 



The Lord Chief Justice answered : &quot; Mr. Speaker, upon the complaint of 

 the Commons, against the Lord Viscount St. Alban, Lord Chancellor, this 

 high court hath thereby, and by his own confession, found him guilty of the 

 crimes and corruptions complained of by the Commons, and of sundry other 

 crimes and corruptions of like nature. 



&quot; And therefore this high court, having first summoned him to attend, and 

 having received his excuse of not attending, by reason of infirmity and sickness, 

 which he protested was not feigned, or else he would most willingly have 

 attended, doth nevertheless think fit to proceed to judgment j and therefore this 

 high court doth adjudge : 



&quot; 1. That the Lord Viscount St. Alban, Lord Chancellor of England, shall 

 undergo fine and ransom of forty thousand pounds. 



&quot; 2. That he shall be imprisoned in the Tower during the King s pleasure. 



&quot; 3. That he shall for ever be incapable of any office, place, or employment 

 in the state or commonwealth. 



&quot; 4. That he shall never sit in parliament, nor come within the verge of the 

 court. 



&quot; This is the judgment and resolution of this high court.&quot; 



The Prince his highness was entreated by the house, that accompanied with 

 divers of the lords of this house, he would be pleased to present this sentence 

 given against the Lord Chancellor unto his majesty. His highness was pleased 

 to yield unto this request. 



