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submitted himself. So it was a judgment by a 

 contract. 



His oath likewise, which was devised some few 

 years before, which is very strict in words, that he 

 shall take no reward, neither before nor after, is 

 chiefly insisted upon. And that, which is more to 

 be observed, there is a precise proviso, that the judg 

 ment and proceeding shall not be drawn into exam 

 ple against any, and specially not against any who 

 have not taken the like oath : which the lord chan 

 cellor, lord treasurer, master of the wards, etc. take 

 not, but only the judges of both benches, and baron 

 of the exchequer. 



The king pardoned him presently after, doubt 

 ing, as it seems, that the judgment was erroneous, 

 both in matter and form of proceeding ; brought it 

 before the lords of parliament, who affirmed the 

 judgment, and gave authority to the king in the like 

 cases, for the time to come, to call to him what lords 

 it pleased him, and to adjudge them. 



NOTES UPON SIR JOHN LEE s CASE, STEWARD OF THE 

 KING S HOUSEHOLD. 



44 Edvv. 3. His offences were, great oppressions 

 in usurpation of authority, in attacking and impri 

 soning in the Tower, and other prisons, numbers of 

 the king s subjects, for causes no ways appertaining 

 to his jurisdiction ; and for discharging an appellant 

 of felony without warrant, and for deceit of the 

 king, and extortions. 



