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citor,* and mentioned in the letters, which your 

 majesty received from the lords. I leave all in hum 

 bleness to your majesty s royal judgment: but this 

 is true, that it was the clear opinion of my lord chan 

 cellor, and myself, and the two chief justices, and 

 others, that it is a cause most fit for the censure of 

 the court, both for the repressing of duels, and the 

 encouragement of complaints in courts of justice. If 

 your majesty be pleased it shall go on, there resteth 

 but Wednesday for the hearing ; for the last day of 

 term is commonly left for orders, though sometimes, 

 upon extraordinary occasion, it hath been set down 

 for the hearing of some great cause. 



I send your majesty also baron Bromley s f re 

 port, which your majesty required ; whereby your 

 majesty may perceive things go not so well in Cum 

 berland, which is the seat of the party your majesty 

 named to me, as was conceived. And yet if there 



wrote five or six letters to lord Darcy, subscribing them with 

 his name ; but did not send them, and only dispersed them 

 unsealed in the fields ; the purport of them being this : that 

 whereas the lord Darcy had said, that, but for him, his servant 

 Beckwith had beaten him to rags, he lied ; and as often as he 

 should speak it, he lied ; and that he would maintain this with 

 his life : adding 1 , that he had dispersed those letters, that his 

 lordship might find them, or somebody else bring them to him; 

 and that if his lordship were desirous to speak with him, he 

 might send his boy, who should be well used. For this offence, 

 Mr. Markham was censured, and fined 500/. by the Star- 

 Chamber. 



* Sir Henry Yelverton. 



f Edward Bromley, made one of the barons of the Exche 

 quer, February 6, 1609-10. 



