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3. And his setting the seal to pardons for mur 

 ders, and other enormous crimes. 



The judgment was imprisonment, fine, and ran 

 som, and restitution to the king, but no disablement* 

 nor making him uncapable, no degrading in honour 

 mentioned in the judgment : but contrariwise, in the 

 clause, that restitution should be made and levied out 

 of his lands and goods, it is expressly said, that be 

 cause his honour of earl was not taken from him, 

 therefore his 20/. per annum creation money should 

 not be meddled with. 



24 Edw. 3. His offence was taking of money 

 from five several persons, that were felons, for staying 

 their process of exigent ; for that it made him a 

 kind of accessary of felony, and touched upon matter 

 capital. 



The judgment was the judgment of felony: but 

 the proceeding had many things strong and new ; 

 first, the proceeding was by commission of oycr and 

 terminer, and by jury ; and not by parliament. 



The judgment is recited to be given in the king s 

 high and sovereign power. 



It is recited likewise, that the king, when he 

 made him chief justice, and increased his wages, did 

 &quot; ore tenus&quot; say to him, in the presence of his coun 

 cil, that now if he bribed he would hang him : 

 unto which penance, for so the record called it, he 



