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 [No. LAX.]
 
 COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY 
 
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 President. 
 THE lil(;HT HON. LORD BKAYBROOKE, F.8.A. 
 WILLIAM IIKXRY BLAAUW, ESQ. ^LA. F.S.A. 
 .lOHN BRUCE, ESQ. V.P S.A. Director. 
 JOHN PAYNE C0LLH^:R, ESQ. F.S.A. Treasurer. 
 Wn.LLVM DURRANT COOPER, ESQ F.S.A. 
 BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ. M.R.S.L. 
 JAMES CROSBY, ESQ. F.S.A. 
 SHi HENRY ELLIS, K.H , FTi.S., Din. S.A. 
 THE EARL JERMYN, M.P. F.S.A. 
 THE REV. LAMBERT B. LARKING, M.A. 
 PETER LEVESQUE, ESQ. F.S.A. 
 FREDERIC OUVRY, ESQ. Treas.S.A. 
 WILTvIAM J. THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A. Secretan/. 
 WILLIAM TITE, ESQ. M.P. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 ALBERT WAY, ESQ. M.A, F.S.A. 
 THE REV. JOHN WEBB, M.A., F.S.A. 
 
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 Tlie CouNxii. of the Camden Society desire it to be under- 
 stood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observa- 
 tions that may appear in the Society's publications ; the Editors 
 of the several works being alone responsible for the same.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Sin James Wihtelocke, the Avritcr of the manuscript now 
 publishcfl, occupied a prominent position in the reigns of James I. 
 and Charles I. Rising from the middle ranks, he became a lawyer of 
 eminence, connected himself with several families of Importance, 
 took a leading part in constitutional proceedings in parliament, 
 sat with credit on the judicial bench, and was author of several 
 valuable professional and antiquarian papers. Nor docs our interest 
 in his flimily terminate with himself. As in the previous instances of 
 More and Bacon, and in several other eminent and well-known cases, 
 which occur far more frequently in the law than in other professions, 
 sir James's son, Bulstrode Whitelocke, excelled his father in all the 
 principal points of his career. As a lawyer he was more eminent, as 
 a statesman flir more distinguished, and as an author, his works are 
 among the most useful materials for the history of his period.* 
 
 A marriage with an heiress of the De la Bcches, near the end of 
 the reign of Henry VI., first brought the AVhitelockcs into consider- 
 
 » Tlic recent republication of his Journal of his Swedish Embassy, under the editorship 
 of Henry Reeve, esq. (2 vols. Svo. 1855), affords proof that bis works still interest his- 
 torical readers. Of his Historical Memorials it is sufficient to remark that it is scarcely pos- 
 sible to find a book upon any incident in the reign of Charles I. which does not contain 
 many references to it a.-* an authority.
 
 ii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 atioii. V>y this mnrriii-^c a Jolin Wliitclocke became possessed of tlic 
 
 manor of Beeches, near Okingham, co. Berks. 
 
 After several freneratlons we come to a William Whitelocke, who 
 
 was the first person in the flimily given to literature. Sent from 
 
 Eton to King's College, Cambridge, in 1537, in due time he became 
 
 a fellow of his college and took the degree of B.D. The church 
 
 rewar<k'd his learning with the vicarage of Prescot, a prebend in 
 
 Lichfield cathedral, and the rectory of Greenford in tlic county of 
 
 Middlesex. He wrote a continuation of Thomas Chesterfield's 
 
 Chronicle of Lichfield Cathedral, published in Wharton's Anglia 
 
 Sacra, vol. i. p. 444. This William Whitelocke died shortly before 
 
 15th April, 1584. 
 
 Richard Whitelocke, the father of sir James Whitelocke, stands in 
 
 the pedigree as the youngest brother of William Whitelocke the 
 chronicler. " Put to London to be brought up in the trade of 
 merchandize," he entered into his calling with spirit, and was 
 accustomed to visit foreign countries in the way of his business. In 
 1570, during one of his journeys into France, he was seised with 
 pleurisy at Bordeaux, and died there at the age of 37. As a Pro- 
 testant, there were difficulties respecting his interment, but the 
 English merchants resident in that city, " to the number of 100 or 
 more, armed with shot, did carry the corj;sc into the vineyards, and 
 there didhonorably inter it." The young merchant Avho thus found 
 a grave on the banks of the Garonne left in his native country a 
 widow and two sons, who were increased to four within a few days 
 after his death. The narrative which is here given of the struggles 
 of his widow in bringing up her children, constitutes a picture of 
 considerable interest. Her maiden name was Colte. She had a 
 brother a merchant at Dantzick, but her jxiternal family was seated
 
 INTKODICTION. 
 
 at Little Mundcn, in tlic county uf Hertford. Fearless in matri- 
 monial speculation, her first adventure was with a London merchant 
 named Brockhurst, " who dealt with the Italians for kcrsics and fine 
 cloths." Death soon severed that companionship, her husband and 
 a daughter, their only child, being carried off by the plague in lo63. 
 Richard Whitelocke was her second husband, a man of gravity and 
 prudence. After his death she married again. Her third adventure 
 was with Thomas Price, and this time she was most unfortunate. A 
 notable unthrift, her husband squandered the means which White- 
 locke had becpieathcd to lier, and was moreover personally " unkind 
 and insolent." Her life for many years was one of " daily miseries." 
 In the midst of her troubles, although continually "robbed and 
 pilled by her cruel and wasteful husband," she steadily persevered 
 in the performance of her duties towards the young Whitclockes. 
 Two things she determined to accomplish for them, and in both 
 she was successful. Although "miserably afflicted in the law'' 
 by her third husband's creditors, she resolved to preserve for the 
 sons of her second husband the portions left them by their father, 
 and, better still, she set her heart on bringing them up " in as good 
 sort as any gentleman in England would do, as in singing, dancing, 
 playing on the lute and other instruments, the Latin, Greek. Hebrew, 
 and French tongues, and to write fair." Such was education in 
 Enf^land in the time of queen Elizabeth. The struggles of this 
 exemplary woman to secure these advantages for her children, and 
 the pious and peaceful close of her life, after she had brought up 
 her children to man's estate and " buried her unthrifty and unkind 
 husband;" she herself going away "with old age even as a candle 
 n-(jeth out," are affectionately commemorated by her son in several 
 passages in the present volume.
 
 iv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The clKinveters of her sons were as various as their {"ortuncs. 
 Eclmiind, the eldest, is well sketched by his lawyer brother. He 
 was the line gentleman of tlie laiuily. Clever, witty, adventurous, 
 well taught, well bred, a soldier, a traveller, an excellent companion, 
 fond of " worshipful society," a pleasant, jovial fellow, uncertain in 
 his movements, impetuous in temper, and with never a penny in 
 his purse. He figured as " Captain Whitelocke " among the boon 
 companions and spendthrifts of his day, and was led by high con- 
 nections into circumstances which occasioned him to be suspected of 
 participation in the two most notable conspiracies in our history, 
 that of the Earl of Essex, and the Gunpowder Treason. " The 
 brainsick meeting at Essex House" made him acquainted with the 
 interior of Newgate, from whence he was transferred to the bar of 
 the court of King's Bench, but the vengeance of the law had been 
 patisKed ere the course of judicial inquiry arrived at the minor and 
 more doubtful ofTenders; after a time he was committed to the free 
 custody of his brother, the future sir James, and shortly afterwards 
 was entirely discharged. The suspicion against him in connection 
 with the Gunpowder Treason arose out of his dependency on the 
 carl of Northumberland, -whom the gallant captain took for his 
 patron after the death of the earl of Essex. On this occasion 
 captain Whitelocke was confined for a little while in the Tower, 
 and afterwards in the Fleet, but was ultimately set at liberty and 
 permitted to relieve with his cheerful society the long imprison- 
 ment of his second patron. In the unhealthy summer of 1608, 
 captain Whitelocke was attacked with the disorder ordinarily pre- 
 valent during our fruit season. After being much reduced in 
 stren«'th, he "was let blood:" and under this treatment, not unnatu- 
 
 CD ' 
 
 rallv, " went awav quietly, as in a slumber." He was on a viirit at
 
 INTICODUCTIOX. V 
 
 tlic time to ilic carl of Susa-x, at Xcwliall in Essex, and the '* [(iclccd 
 man of countries," "a fellow of inllnitc jest and most excellent fancy," 
 was honourably interred by his noble friend in the restin^^-placc of 
 the Katclifles. 
 
 Klehard, tlio second son, followed his father's way of life, and 
 visited many countries in pursuit of commercial profit. Finally, he 
 fixed himself at Klbinf^. His success in merchandize was various, 
 but he married a lady of Elbing, possessed of some fortune, and had 
 a numerous family. One of his sons came to England and claimed 
 acquaintance with his uncle Sir James, then become a judge. 
 Uicluud ^Mliteloeke died at Elbing in lG2-i. 
 
 William, the third son, had no mind to learning, and was 
 therefore bound apprentice; but he had other aspirations than those 
 which could be satisfied behind a counter, ^^'hen the drum beat 
 for volunteers for the expedition to Portugal, young Whitelocke was 
 carried away by the popular enthusiasm for Don Antonio. lie left 
 " master, thrift, and all," and followed the wars. On his return from 
 that expedition he seemed at death's door. Maternal care restored 
 him to imlooked-for health. On his recovery he joined himself 
 to sir Francis Drake, and partook of the perils and adventures of the 
 eminent sailor's closing years. When death came upon Sir Francis 
 in the miserable cabin of his paltry ship, then beating about off the 
 coast of America, within the tropics, William Whitelocke, as we 
 learn from the MS. now published, was in close attendance upon 
 his irallant master. The circumstances of his death are told here for 
 the first time. The naval hero struggled to the last with the 
 great conqueror, lie literally expired in harness, for, when he felt 
 that life was ebbing, he ordered young Whitelocke to " put on his
 
 VI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 anniuir upon liiin, tli it lie inif^'lit die like a soMlcr!" Whitelocke 
 dill iu)t long outlive the illustrious sailor. In a conflict at sea with 
 the Spaniards he fell at the age of 27. 
 
 In these three sons of the young merchant we see predominant 
 the spirit of adventure which was in their father. James Whitelocke, 
 the fourth son, inherited the maternal qualities of steadiness and 
 perseverance. From ^lerchant Taylors' school, where, like his 
 brother Edmund, he was a pupil of Richard Mulcaster, he was 
 elected to St. John's, Oxford. He details fully his scholastic and 
 academical course, commemorating as his Hebrew teacher one Hop- 
 kinson, who dwelt in Grub Street, " an obscure and simple man in 
 worldly affairs, but expert in all the left-hand tongues." " Great 
 learned men," we are told, came to consult him in those languages, 
 and among them no less a person than Lancelot Andrewes. 
 
 The gradual ascent of the plodding, steady youth is minutely 
 chronicled in the following pages. He early set his mind on 
 being a common lawyer, and in 1600 was called to the bar by the 
 Middle Temple. Two years afterwards he married Elizabeth the 
 eldest daughter of Edward Bulstrode, of Hedgley Bulstrode, in the 
 county of Bucks. The marriage was respectable and hapj^y. It 
 made him the father of a numerous family, brought him into 
 connection with the Crokes, the Bulstrodcs, and other persons of note 
 and name, gave object and purpose to his own aspiring views, and 
 in every way materially advanced his prospects and position in life. 
 
 From this period his Liber Famelicus becomes a register of 
 the enlargement of his family, and his professional advancement. 
 Every child born to him brings before us some new persons as 
 godfathers and godmothers, whose social position and status arc
 
 INTRODUCTIOX. vii 
 
 duly chronicled. The particuhus wliich are thus given, an<l 
 those of a similar kind introduced throughout the book on other 
 occasions, are often valuable aids to our knowledge of the time. 
 In like manner every step tliat he takes upwards in his pro- 
 fession gives hiin an opportunity of mentioning some new person, 
 sometimes more fully, sometimes only by an allusion, but even then 
 with an occasional descriptive touch which is importantly charac- 
 teristic. 
 
 Sir James's litigation with Sir William Pope, an unscrupulous 
 adversary; his share in the opposition in parliament to the power 
 claimed by king James of setting impositions on imported goods; 
 his committal to the Fleet for some presumed anti-prerogative 
 doings as a pleader in the Court of Chancery; the endeavour to pro- 
 cure his election as Kecorder of London, which was foiled by the 
 opposition of the King; and finally his readings in his inn of court, 
 his serjeantship and his judgeships: these are the events which 
 sir James has recorded at greatest lenirth. 
 
 The case of Impositions was one of the highest constitutional im- 
 portance. The currants of commerce were subjected by statute to a 
 customs duty upon importation of two shillings and six pence per 
 hundredweight. The King, of his own authority, "imposed" an 
 additional duty of five shillings. Bates, a Levant merchant, con- 
 tested the validity of the new duty, or " imposition," but it was con- 
 firmed in the court of Exchequer on grounds which laid all com- 
 merce at the sovereign's mercy. " The sea ports," it was declared, 
 " are the King's gates, and he may open ur shut them to whom he 
 pleases."* The question being brought belbre parliament, the 
 
 Reports of lJatc'88 case, aii.l the proceedings to which it gave rise, will be found in 
 Howell's State Trials, i. 371.
 
 Vlil INTRODUCTION. 
 
 government rested its (Icfoncc on the decision of tlie Exchequer. 
 ^V^litelocke claims to himself the honour of having been the first, 
 and at first the only, person to call in question the validity of the 
 I'vxchequer decision. lie not only spoke but wrote against it, 
 (p. 24.) 
 
 Such opposition to the court made Whitclockc a marked man. 
 His conduct ns a practising barrister was jealously scrutinised. The 
 lord chancellor snubbed and checked him, taunted him, and 
 sneered at him, in open court. Offence was found in his conduct in 
 a cause instituted by Ralph Brooke, the York Herald, against Henry 
 St. George, Bluemantle, and also in an opinion given to Sir Robert 
 Mansell against the validity of a royal commission relating to the 
 navy. Whitelockc was summoned before the council, and com- 
 mitted to the Fleet. After twenty-six days' confinement, he penned 
 a submission, which was moulded into courtly form by Bacon, 
 then attorney- general, and made to conclude with a passage of 
 high-flown flattery of prerogative derived from Tacitus. The King 
 was captivated. He was caught on two of his weakest points, his 
 absolutism and his pedantry, and the uncourtly lawyer was set at 
 liberty. The narrative of this circumstance in the book now published 
 is exceedingly imperfect. Sir James knew himself to be writing 
 under the domination, if not under the eye, of a power which aimed 
 at the suppression of all investigation into its own origin and limits; 
 he was surrounded by the sycophantic agents of such a power, and 
 felt it unsafe even to commit to paper the "passages of his trouble." 
 One portion of the charge against him related to a royal commission 
 for redressing, as it was termed, the abuses in the navy, which com- 
 mission sir James had advised sir Robert JNIansell was contrary to 
 law. This is only slightly alluded to. Bacon's speech on this
 
 JN riUMilXTlON. 
 
 occasion is printed in his Works, und in Howell's State Trials (ii. 700) 
 — on the latter occasion with some valuable observations by the 
 editor — but after all we learn little of the real facts. To supply them, 
 as far as possible, I have printed as an appendix, from a manuscript 
 in the State Paper Office, a copy of the entry relating to this business 
 which appears on the register of the privy council. Sir James's 
 account is timid and incomplete, that of Bacon and the entry of the 
 privy council are coloured and ex parte, but, among them, an his- 
 torian will nut fail to discover the truth. 
 
 Whitelocke's commitment took place in 1613. In the year 
 following the House of Commons was again assembled, and resumed 
 the consideration of the question of Impositions. The practice of 
 former ages and sovereigns was carefully investigated, and the House 
 prepared to vindicate its opposition by argument and record. An 
 important part in the great discussion was assigned to Whitelocke. 
 (p. 42.) The result is briefly told in these pages. The parliament 
 was dissolved, and the members who had been appointed to conduct 
 the meditated discussion were summoned to appear before the 
 council with their notes and arguments. " I brought mine," says 
 Whitelocke, " to the clerk of the council, Mr. Cottington, the same 
 afternoon, being twenty-fuur sides in folio, written with my own 
 hand, and saw them burned." The King witnessed some part of 
 this triumph of prerogative in a characteristic way. " I saw him," 
 remarks sir James Whitelocke, " look through an open place in the 
 hangings, about the bigness of the palm of one's hand, all the whilo 
 the lords were in with us." To have made the victory secure his 
 majesty should have thrown into the conflagratiun the records 
 from which the martyred arguments were derived. 
 
 The narrative of the proceedings between the city of London and 
 
 CAMl). soc. c
 
 X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the Jving, on the desire of the eitizcns to elect Whitelockc as 
 their recorder, which extends from p. 63 to p. 69, contains several 
 noticeable incidents; Bacon's dealing with the aldermen, their in- 
 terview with the King, his Majesty's notion of a free election,* his 
 special exception of ^Mr., afterwards Sir Thomas, Crewe, and the 
 bar joke of Eeininiscor and Memini. 
 
 These are circumstances which have a public and general interest, 
 but, besides these, there are in the present work many acceptable 
 particulars relating to public men and events of that period. 
 Sir James had little biographical talent, but he occasionally hits off 
 a character in a few effective and sometimes even impressive Avords. 
 Witness his notice of sir Henry Xeville at p. 74 ; of sir Augustine 
 Kichols at p. 52; of sir Humphrey May, sir Benjamin Rudyerd, and 
 sir Lionel Cranfield. But of things of this kind the best in the 
 book is his notice of the judicial character of sir Edward 
 Coke. It is thus that he speaks of the great legal oracle : — " Never 
 man was so just, so upright, free from corruption, solicitations of 
 great men or friends, as he was. Never put counsellors that 
 practised before him to annual pensions of money or plate to have 
 his favour. In all causes before him the counsellor might assure 
 his client from the danger of bribery, the secret mischief growing by 
 wife, children, servants, chamber-motions, great or small ; and the 
 most religious and orderly man in his house that lived in our state. 
 In another place he sums up Coke's character in these few words, — 
 he was " the most just, honest, and uncorrupt judge that ever sate 
 
 on bench." 
 
 At p. 48 we are brought to a near view of this celebrated 
 
 * « The aldermen desired to know his pleasure, whether he would not give them leave to 
 have a free election; he answered, ' Aye,' but still pressed his commendation, which he 
 expected they should regard." (pp. 00, 07.)
 
 INTRODUCTION. xi 
 
 magistrate. Whitclockc rode over on a Sunday morning from 
 Fawlcy Court, his resilience in Buckinghamshire, to the sermon at 
 Windsor, and theic in St. George's chapel heard preacli dean Field, 
 the author of the book on The Church, and " the Field," according to 
 Fuller's pun, "which the Lord had blessed," Nothing is recorded 
 by Whitelocke about Dr. Field's sermon, but we are told that in the 
 chapel Whitelocke found himself in distinguished company. In 
 the stalls above him sat secretary Winwood, and Coke, then lord 
 chief justice. Sermon over, each of these magnates beckoned 
 to Whitelocke to come to him. Taking the secretaiT- first, 
 Whitelocke got an invitation to dinner, which he declined, havino- 
 friends at home. Passing on to the chief justice, he was greeted 
 with, " Come, Mr. Whitelocke, I will make bold with you, one of 
 my own coat. I pray thee let me have thy company out of the 
 church, for I am a stranger here." " So," says Whitelocke, " I led 
 him out by the arm," and went with him to his coach in the upper 
 court. AVould he had recorded their conversation as they passed alono-, 
 — Whitelocke proud of supporting the feeble footsteps of the great 
 legal luminary, and taking to himself some share in the reverential 
 greetings which they encountered on their way. One would like 
 to have known whether Coke had a heart which could be stirred 
 by the beautiful architecture, or by the extensive view, which met 
 their gaze. Whitclockc commemorates but one item of their gossip 
 " I asked him," he says, " why he stayed not at the court to dinner. 
 He told me that whilst he stood by the King at dinner he would 
 ever be asking of him questions of that nature that he had as lief be 
 out of the room, and that made him be as far olFas he might be ever 
 at such times." "1 guess," adds the recorder of this valuable fact, 
 " it was concerning matters of his prerogative, which the kin'---
 
 XI i INTUODUCTION. 
 
 would take ill il" lie were not ujiswered in them as he would have it." 
 What undesigned corroborative testimony does this give to Waller's 
 well-known anecdote of bishop Andrewcs and bishop Neile. 
 
 Another anecdote of king James which is no less characteristic has 
 become well known since first published by i\Ir. Basil Montagu from 
 the present MS. in his edition of the Works of Bacon. Yelverton was 
 made attorney -general at the time when legal offices stood, as it 
 were, in the place of pocket-money to the favourite Buckingham. 
 Aj^pointments to minor offices passed entirely through his hands, and 
 every judgeship was worth to him several thousand pounds. In an 
 unguarded moment, and without consulting his favourite, the king, 
 apparently anxious to get rid of solicitation (for when an office of any 
 worth was vacant, James was worried out of his life by all kinds of ap- 
 plications for it) declared his intention to appoint Yelverton, who was 
 then solicitor-generaL Buckingham did not object to the man, nor, 
 probably, would he have objected to any other man, but he wanted his 
 accustomed fee, and made it apparent that he did so. For sometime 
 it seemed doubtful whether Yelverton would hold his ground. Ulti- 
 mately the prudent lawyer foiled the favourite by a course of passive 
 resistance, which is related in full in the present volume. When 
 the matter had been absolutely settled, Yelverton waited on the king 
 privately, thanked him for the appointment, dwelt largely on its frec- 
 ness, and added that, out of dutv, he had brought the kinjr 4,000Z. as 
 a token of gratitude. James was bewildered with delight; he clasped 
 his attorney-general in his arms, thanked him profusely for his wel- 
 come offijring, told him that he needed it, that " it must serve to buy 
 him dishes," and hurried Yelverton off, probably lest Bucking- 
 ham should make liis appearance, to pay the money to the keeper 
 oi' the privy purse.
 
 INTIIODICTION. xiii 
 
 To anecdotes of this kind, of wliich there arc several others in the 
 book, must be added many particulars respecting those curious old 
 practices — ceremonial, hospitable, educational — once common in the 
 Inns of Court, I mean tlie readings. Whitelocke minutely details 
 the proceedings of these notable assemblies, as practised in the Middle 
 Temple, from the meeting in Tothill Fields, where the reader 
 and the ancients were met by the Dean of Westminster, and 
 played their game of bowls " according to ancient custom," to the 
 high mysteries performed by the reader and his cupboard-men;" 
 and the wonderful feasting, and the noble guests, and the " special 
 achates", and the grand presents, and the splendid delicacies, and 
 what It all cost, even to a penny. These things have long properly 
 died out. Unsuited to the taste and genius of Englishmen of the 
 present day, they seem to us to have been grotesque and almost foolish 
 festivals. What was good in them we now arrive at in other ways. 
 But they formed a remarkable feature of the times in which White- 
 locke lived, and found in him a chronicler who registered the parti- 
 culars con amore. 
 
 Some other minute information which is contained in the MS- 
 I have thought it better to omit; I allude to the sum-totals 
 of his own personal cxpences, and the profits of his practice, 
 stated quarter by quarter, with minuteness and accuracy, during 
 the whole of his career from 1600, when, as we have stated, he 
 was called to the bar. Such details soon become wearisome, and, 
 being repeated at such frequent intervals, break in upon the little 
 
 " "Cuplioanl nion— There are four, who in Uio reading timcsarguein turns the reader's 
 
 cxse, beginning at the puisne These four cupboard men were wont to be the four 
 
 anciontest barristers of the house who were to be the two next readers of the house, and 
 tiiis was observed %vhether they purposed to bo readers or not; but by an order of later 
 time no man ought to take upon him to be a cupboard man unk>M he resolvetii to read." 
 iJugduie's Origincs, p. 203. The p«.ss;igo was pointed out U> me by Mr. !•'. C. Carringtun.
 
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 xiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 continuity which is to be found in Sir James's narrative; still there arc 
 some (acts in them wl . Ich are worth preserving. His practice during his 
 first term produced him 5/. 3s. 8d. ; during his first year, 39^. 3s. 7d. 
 In 1604, when he married, his practice produced 18SI. 6s. 8d., and 
 that year his expenses amounted to 162/. Is. UcZ. In 1605 he first 
 made more than 200/. by his practice; in 1607 more than 300/.; 
 in 1608 more than 400/. ; in 1612 more than 500/.; his expenses 
 had now mounted to 38i)/. In 1615 his practice first yielded 
 more than 600/., and his expenses amounted to 439/. In 1619, 
 the year of his readership, his professional receipts were 622/., 
 his expcnces 985/. In the year following he took his degree of 
 sero-eant, which cost, as will be seen at p. 84, 207/. 6s. lie/., 
 besides the customary gift of 600/. (see p. 44.), and his knight- 
 hood, whicli cost (see p. 84) 44/. 17s. 8d. These great incidents, 
 with the expenses connected with them, mounted his outgoings 
 during that year to 2,055/. 4s. 5d., whilst his practice yielded but 
 600/. 4s. Id. Tiluch of his income as a judge was made up of 
 fees. The total ran from 900/. to about 1,000/. The income 
 from the Welsh judgeship, which was his first appointment, was 
 much about the same as that from his subsequent seat in the 
 
 King's Bench. 
 
 We learn from his notes that he laid out in purchases of land 
 something more than 10,000/., and that his chief purchase was an 
 old mansion house termed Fawley Court, pleasantly situated on the 
 banks of the Thames in the county of Buckingham, a short distance 
 to the eastward of Henley-on-Thames. This, with a town mansion 
 in Fleet Street, in the parish of St. Dunstan's,^ were his principal 
 places of residence. 
 
 ^ The c-xtr^fts from the registers of this parish, published with much skill and judgment
 
 lu^utnu^^ 
 
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 INTRODICTION. XV 
 
 Sir James's appointment to a scat in the King's Bench took place 
 in October, 1G24, during the last year of the reign of king James I. 
 Eight )'ears, which was the length of his tenure of ofTice, carried 
 him sunicicntly far into tlic reign of ('harles I. to make him, at 
 least in appearance, a partaker in some of the unpopular acts which 
 the judges wore called upon to perform. In these diflicult circum- 
 stances, his early love of constitutional freedom did not altogether 
 forsake him. He opposed, although not so strenuously as one 
 could have wished, the practice of the King's sending for the opinions 
 of the judges beforehand. We are told that " he did often and 
 highly complain against this way," and that he said "if bishop Laud 
 went on in his way he would kindle a llame in the nation,"" or, as 
 it is more fully stated in another place, that the bishop "was too full 
 of fire, though a just and good man, and that his want of experience 
 in state matters, and his too much zeal for the Church, and heat, if 
 he proceeded in the way he was then in, would set this nation on 
 fire".'' In 1640, when the Long Paidiament called in question the 
 conduct of the judges, in refusing to release the members of parliament 
 committed in 1629 for their opposition to the court, unless upon their 
 finding sureties for good behaviour, the conduct of sir James was 
 manfully defended by his son P>ulstrode, as well as by Hampden 
 and divers others. It was shewn that, like his relative judge Croke, 
 he differed in opinion from the rest of the bench, and all who 
 spoke upon the subject "expressed themselves with great respect and 
 honour to his memory."*^ 
 
 One of the iiicitnvenicnees ol' the limo in whieh he jtariiiipatoil 
 
 by my friend Mr. John Gdujili Nicliols, in the Culleetnnea To|i(>graj(luca and (icnoalogica, 
 vols. IV. and v., contain many entries which n'l;it«' |i> th.' Whilcluckes and the cognate 
 families. 
 
 • Whitelocke'8 Mcinori.ilH, cl. 1732, p. i:;. '■ Il.id. p. 3 J, 
 
 •• Ibid. p. 3y.
 
 xvi INTHODUCTIOX. 
 
 wa? the delay in payment of the judicial salaries, consequent on an 
 empty exchequer. During the memory ofnian, as sir James assures 
 us, the judges' wages had been always paid half-yearly, at the end 
 of Easter term and of Michaelmas term. In 1627 money was no 
 longer forthcoming. At Michaelmas in that year, if we understand 
 his account correctly, twelve months remained unpaid. A com- 
 mittee of the judges, of wlioni Whitelocke was one, was appointed 
 to remonstrate with the lord treasurer, the earl of ^larlborough, 
 himself formerly a chief justice, upon the delay. They did so, 
 and reminded him that it was provided by an express statute 
 that the salaries of the judges were to be paid out of certain 
 specially assigned funds, "what want there was otherwise." i\Iilton, 
 addressing lord ^Marlborough's daughter, described her father as 
 the 
 
 "good earl, once president 
 Of England's council and her treasury, 
 Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee ;" — 
 
 his professional brethren, if Whitelocke be accepted as their re- 
 presentative, were not so civil to him. The earl received the 
 deputation most courteously. No man could be more kind or 
 pleasant to applicants for money. He promised to give sir Robert 
 Pye, the clerk of the warrants, present order that the judges 
 should be paid out of the very first moneys that came in. If 
 sir James Whitelocke were not misinformed, the treasurer did 
 actually give such directions viva voce. But time shewed the 
 worthlessness of his " sleeveless " and "coming" answers. The 
 "old dissembler," who In the courts had been nicknamed " Volponc," 
 evidenced the accuracy of the character attributed to him, by 
 signing written orders which effectually rendered his spoken 
 directions unavailinrr. Even when monev came in, the earl
 
 INTUODUCTION. XVll 
 
 desired to make its payment tell to his own pergonal advantage, by 
 sending orders only to certain of the judges from whom he had 
 borrowed money. In this way he "dallied out" all the vacation and 
 Hilary term, when Whitelocke and two others, whose patience 
 was exhausted, took the law into their own hands. They prepared 
 writs to charge the suspended payments on certain funds in the 
 possession of the clerk of the petty bag, but the lord keeper inter- 
 posed and procured them their money. When the circuit approached 
 attain the lord treasurer had them ut an advantage, and did not 
 omit his opportunity of retaliation. On the last day of term 
 preceding the assizes it was customary to advance the judges their 
 circuit-money. At this time •' not a penny was paid." The judges 
 were consequently obliged to spend their own money in the king's 
 service. " 'i'hese monstrous enormities in the state happened " says 
 sir James " by the crooked dealing of the treasurer." Perhaps not 
 altogether so; the judgments of professional men upon one another 
 are not always to be relied upon. 
 
 Long life was not vouchsafed to any of this generation of the 
 Whitelockes. Sir James records in the present volume the death ot 
 his wife in May, 16.31, in terms of aftection which were afterwards 
 inscribed by her son Bulstrode upon her monument. On the 20ih of 
 the following August sir James made his will, of which he appointed 
 his son Bulstrode executor, and committed his only survi\ing unmar- 
 ried daughter to the care of her already distinguished brother. Ihe 
 last entry in his Liber Famelicus, as we have printed it, relates tu 
 the consecration of a chapel in his house of Fawlcy Court" by bishop 
 
 " I am reminded l.y Mr. W. Diirrant Cooper tliat Fawlcy Court is memorable a-s having 
 been one of the houses in which Willi:im III. rested on his progress from Torbay to Lon- 
 don. He received there the .Icdarafion from the peers, who assembled on tiio withdrawal 
 of James II., ami an address from the Corporation of London. (Uiary of Lord Rochester, 
 ii. 224.) 
 
 CAMU. SOC. d
 
 xviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Williams, on the 27th December, 1631, but Sir James continued to 
 enter the accounts of his professional receipts up to the Easter term 
 following, the last entry being 11. 7s., the proceeds of " sugarloaves," 
 which were a customary present to a judge. 
 
 His son informs us that in the following term sir James " fell ill, 
 of a cold, which so increased upon him that he was advised to go 
 into the country, wliercupon he took his leave of his brethren the 
 judges and sergeants, and was cheerful with them, but said to them, 
 ' God be with you, I shall never see you again,' and this without 
 the least disturbance or trouble of his thoughts; and, soon after he 
 came into the country, on the 22nd day of June, he died."' He 
 was laid, according to his own wish, by the side of his wife in the 
 parish church of Fawley, and his will was proved at Doctors' 
 Commons by his son Bulstrode, on the 3rd of Xovcmbcr following 
 his death. 
 
 The monument erected to Sir James in Fawley church ^ con- 
 tains a Latin commemorative inscription; but his best epitaph is 
 contained in a few words of his son's Memorials: — " In his death 
 the king lost as good a subject, his country as good a patriot, 
 the people as just a judge as ever lived; all honest men lamented 
 the loss of him, no man in his age left behind him a more honoured 
 memory.'''^ Kinrr Charles I. said of him, that he was "a stout, 
 wise, and learned judge, and one who knew what belongs to uphold 
 magistrates and magistracy in their dignity."*^ 
 
 The manuscript from which we have printed is tlie original, 
 in the handwriting of sir James Whitelocke, and is now in the 
 possession of a descendant of his son Bulstrode. Bulstrode White- 
 
 » Whitelocke'8 Mem. p. 17. •• Langley's Hist. Desborough, p. 202. 
 
 ' Whitelocke's Mem. p. 18. "* Ibid. p. 11.
 
 INTUODLCTION. XIX 
 
 lockc married thrice, and iiad a numerous family. One of his 
 sons by his last wife was named Carleton, which was his mother's 
 maiden name. A son of Carleton Whitelocke, who bore the same 
 name, was grandfather to the gentleman to whom the Camden 
 Society is indebted for the use of the manuscript. 
 
 Other writings of Sir James Whitelocke may be found in Ilearne's 
 Collection of Curious Discourses, Treatises by him arc there printed 
 " Of the antiquity and office of Heralds in England" (i. 65.); " Of the 
 antiquity, use, and privilege of places for students and professors of 
 the common law of England " (i. 78); "Of the antiquity, use, and 
 ceremony of lawful combats in England" (ii. 190); and " On the 
 topographical dimensions in England, compared with those of the 
 Greeks and Latins" (ii. 382). His " Lectures or Readings in the 
 Middle Temple, Aug. 2, 1619; on Stat. Hen. VIIL c. 13," of which 
 so much is said in the Liber Famelicus, remain in manuscript in the 
 Ashmolean Library ;" and several of his speeches are said to be printed 
 in a work entitled " The Sovereign's Prerogative and the Subjects 
 Privileges discussed, &c., in the 3rd and 4th of King Charles L" 
 Lond. 1657, fol. 
 
 Bulstrode "Whitelocke laments that when Fawley Court was plun- 
 dered by the Cavaliers in 1642, the brutish fellows committed 
 wanton destruction on the books and papers which were lel't in his 
 study; "some they tore in pieces, others they burnt to light their 
 tobacco, and some they carried away with them, to my extreme 
 great loss and prejudice, in wanting the writings of my estate, and 
 losing very many excellent manuscripts of my flithcr's and others, 
 and some of my own labours."** Among the MSS. thus dci^troyed 
 
 • Cat. MSS. Angliii', p. 34i. ^ Memorials, p G5.
 
 \X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 was perhaps the one alhided to at p. 24, respecting tlie question of" 
 
 impositions. 
 
 An original portrait of Sir James is in the possession oC his 
 
 clescendants. I am not aware that there is any engraved portrait of 
 
 him. 
 
 J. B. 
 
 •J, Cppjr Gloucester Street, 
 12 August, 18.58.
 
 lAWVAl FAMELICUS. 
 
 This book I began to write in, the 18 April 1609, anno 7 Jacobi 
 regiii siii Angliue, et Scotiae 42. 
 
 In it I cntenJ to set downe mcmorialls for my posterity of tliinges 
 most properly concerning myself and my familye. 
 
 Oculis in solcm, alls in ccclum. Motto do cognisance.* 
 
 Vive diu Whitlocke, tuissic utero fatis 
 Ut referent sensus alba nee atra tuos. 
 
 JAMES WHITELOCKE. 
 
 My father RiCHAiiD AViliTELOCK was the fourthe sun of Richard 
 Whitelock, and was born in the ancient seat of the Whitelocks, 
 called Beeches, situate neer Okingham, a market towne in the 
 countye of Barkcs, whiche land hathc continued in our blud 
 sithencc the year of our Lord 1231; for it appeeretho by a deed in 
 my cosen William t Whitelockes hand of Beches that Robert :{ then 
 bishop of Salisburyc, who was lord of the manor of Sunning neer 
 OkinfT-ham, did give to William de la Beche, out of his purpres- 
 turc§ of Bear Wood, that vcrye land my cosen William Whitelock 
 now holdethe by discent from his father, and he hathc the originall 
 
 • This " nuitto of cognisance " refers to the arms borne by the Whitelocke family, 
 a chevron between tliree fah-ons, or, as tliey are calle<i in one pedigree, three eagles, and 
 the crest, a like bird rising out of a tower. 
 
 t My father's elder brother's son, anil heir of the family ; William the eldest being dod 
 without issue. Xi'tc l>y titc irridr of tin: AfS. 
 
 * Robert de Bingham, bishop of Salisbury 1'22S— r2-16. § Inclosure. 
 CAMD. ROC. 15
 
 2 liiu:k famklicus. 
 
 (Iced of confirination from the dean and cliapter in lils liand, dated 
 at that time, and an other deed of composition made between the 
 bisliop and the said William de la Beche, dated 1247, for the im- 
 provement of the rent of the land so given. 
 
 This land continued in the name of Bechcs, being the manor 
 of Bechcs, untill 31 Henry VI., and divers court rolles ar in the 
 hands of my coscn William Whitelock of the Bechcs, in Edward 
 III., and Edward 11., and Richard II. his time, by whiche it ap- 
 peerethe they were sum of them knightes. 
 
 The last male of this house was Robert de la Beche, who had 
 only on daughter and heir called Agnes de la Beche, to whomc 
 this land near Okingham and an ancient farm of the Beches in 
 Whitchurche in Oxfordshire, called Beches Place, wear intailed 31 
 Henry VI., and then soon after dyed Robert, and Agnes was 
 maryed to John Whitelock, who, in her right, had these lands; 
 from which John they descended by mean and lineall discents to 
 John Whitelock, father of William Whitelock who now holdethe 
 them as heir to his sayd father John, except sutche as William, the 
 now tenant, hath solde to myself and others. 
 
 Thear ar among our evidences of our house, in the hands of my 
 coscn William Whitelock, leases made by John Whitelock and the 
 sayd Agnes, of part of these lands, in the beginning of Edward the 
 IVth his raigne. [ 12 Maij, 4 E. IV.*] 
 
 A writ of restitution for John Whitelock, of the lands in Whit- 
 churche upon a forceable entre. 
 
 This Agnes in a publique instrument doth write her self " genc- 
 rosa," whiche is very unusuall for that time, and for this see the 
 deed in my cosen Whitelockes hands. [Rob. Beche gent., in a deed, 
 14 H. VI.; Agnes gencrosa, 8 H. Vll.f] 
 
 Querie for a commission that came out of the Eschequer about 
 the end of Elisabethes raigne to enquire of subtractions of rents 
 of the manor of Sunning, which is now the enheritance of the 
 crowne by exchange withe the bishop of Salisburye, and you shall 
 
 * 8ul)!>cquently added. + The like.
 
 LIIUCU FA.MKLK TS. .5 
 
 Undo tliat my cosen William Wliitclock is by it charged witlie tlie sub- 
 tracting of the rent ol' iinprovoinont, by tlic composition made withe 
 the bisliop anno 1247, as lineall heir to that William de la Beche. 
 
 Observe the moderation of this family, that hathe continued tlicar 
 patrimony for almost 400 yeares without encrease or diminution; it 
 hatlie been more impaired by the now owner then by all his ancetors, 
 as I can finde by his evidences; nether do I finde tliat in all tliis 
 time tliey have purchased any land, netlicr tiiat they have soldo 
 anye. 
 
 My grandfather RiCHAUD WiliTELOCK maryed a Grove; her 
 frends dwelled at a place called Funges* in [Buckingham] shire. His 
 father William maryed a Cowdrey. My grandfather had four suns: 
 AViLLiAM, that was brought up at Eton CoUedge, and from thence 
 went to Kinges Colledge in Cambridge, whear he was chosen Fellow, 
 and after Avas A^iccprovost of the colledge, and from thence was 
 presented to the vicaradge of Prcscot in the dioces of Chester, as 
 appercthe by the letters of presentation in my hand an. 1559, in 
 whiche he is named viceprepos'dus of the colledge and sacv(C theolo- 
 gicB baccalaureus ; he had another good benefice in Middlesex, and 
 was canon of Wells, and of Litchefeild, in whiche churche he lived 
 for the latter part of his time altogeather, and thear dyed a single 
 man, being neer fowerscore yeares of age at his deathc. 
 
 The second sun was Jonx, who had the land from William, first 
 by composition, and afterward, he dying without issue, became heir, 
 but was fayne to agree for it withe his brother William the heir. This 
 Joliii lived neer fowerskore yeares, and dyed miserably tormented 
 withe the stone, above the space of a dozen whole yeares before his 
 deathe. 
 
 Ills wife was the daughter of on Planer of Okingham, and by 
 her he had many children, and left her surviving at his deathe; he 
 was 45 year olde before he maryed, and his wife very yong; about 
 17 yeares of age. 
 
 His sun and heir was William Whitclock, now living, and owner of 
 
 * l'rol)alj|y Fingcst in Uui-kinghamsliirc.
 
 LIBER FAMELICU8. 
 
 the land as heir to the family; and he marycd Ursula Beresford, 
 tlaughter of George Beresford and Maryc daughter of John Colte, 
 my mother's brother, and by her hathc divers ehildrcn. This 
 George Beresford was sun to on Beresford an alderman of London. 
 His mother did afterward marye sir John Langley sumtimes maior 
 of London.* He had a sister maryed first to Mr. Colte of Wood- 
 wicks in Hartfordshire, my mother's cosen german, by whonic she 
 had John Colte now owner of Woodwieks, and Ursula wife first to 
 Robert Woodford of Burnham, and now to Hughe Holland. After- 
 ward she marved mr. John Norris of Barkshire, now sir John Norris, 
 by whome she had only on daughter and heir, first wife of sir Edward 
 Norris of Englefeilde and now of vicount Fcnton, [after erl of 
 Kellye,]t a Scot, capteyne of the king's gard. 
 
 William Whitelock hathe a second brother, called John White- 
 lock, that is now a servant in the king's house in the waferye. 
 
 The third sun of my grandfather was HiEROM, who lived not 
 mutche above 60 ycares. He had only on sun at the time of his 
 deathe, called William, that was broughte up in Westminster School, 
 and went from thence by election to Christchurchc in Oxon, wliear 
 he continued untill he was maister of artes, and was afterward vicar 
 of Sunning, prebend of Wells, and of Lichefeild, and had a com- 
 petent patrimonye of lay fee from his father. He was a verye good 
 scholer, and a good houskceper, but lived in great torment withe the 
 stone, of whichc he dyed little above 30 yeares of age, and left 
 children very yong. His widow marycd John Whitelock of the 
 waferye in tlie king's house. 
 
 ^[y father, lviCH.\RD Whitelock, was the fourthe and yongest 
 sun. He was put to London to be broughte up in the trade of niar- 
 chandise, and then became free of the best companyes, as of the 
 marchant adventure[r]s, Spayne, IMuskovie, and did tralique in all 
 these country es, and heer in England withe the Italian maichants, 
 but used most trafique in Frauncc. He used to go in parson into 
 forcyne countryes, and, having a purpose to leave that dangerous 
 
 • Lord Mayor in 1570. t A subsciutnt insertion.
 
 LinEU FAMELICUS. 6 
 
 course of life, was taken away by deathe in that voyapc he made 
 accoumpt shold have been his last. He went from London toward 
 IJurdcux in Fruunec, the emporium for Gascoyne wines, 22 Sep- 
 tember, 1570, and thear fell into a plurisye, 21 October next following, 
 of wliichc he dyed 7 November following, and was buryed, withe 
 great diflicultyo; for, by reason that he refused extreani unction and 
 sutche popishe ceremonies in his siknesse, he was excommunicate as 
 an herctik, and so deprived of christian buriall. But the Englishc 
 marchants that wear then at Burdeux, to the number of a 100 or 
 more, armed withe shot, did carye the corps into the vineyards, and 
 thear did honorably interr it. He made his last will and testiimcnt 
 in his siknesse, dated 30 October, 1570, and in it made my mother 
 his executrix, who did prove it and execute it most faythefully and 
 lovingly toward her children. The inventarye was 1221/. l\s. Id. 
 lie was but 37 yeares of age when he dyed, as appeerethc by his 
 picture, whichc was made 1563, and then he was 30 year olde, and 
 he died in anno 1570. I have noted his gravityeby his picture, for, 
 being then but 30 year olde, he ware a cap, a verye smale ruire withe 
 black work, a side coat of fine black clothe, a black satten dubblet, 
 and a Spanishe cape of line black clothe, furred and edged withe 
 pinked satten, and long stokkins. This apparell now woldc be 
 thoughtc overgrave in an elder by ten yeares. 
 
 My tixther left four suns: Edmund, born 10 February, 1564, in 
 the parishe of Fanehurche in London; lilcilARDi: born thear 28 
 December, 1565; William and James gemini, William the elder, 
 anil they wear posthumi, for they wear born 28 November, 1570, 
 21 dayes alter the deathe of thear father, in a great house in Thenis 
 Street over against the Bear Key in the parishe of St. Dunstan's in 
 the Est, London, whear thear father then dwelled. My mother was 
 marycd to my father 7 February, 1563, anno 6 Elizabetha; Regin:u. 
 She was the widow ol'on BuoKiiuusT, a marchant in Lonilon, that 
 dealt withe the Italians for kersies and fine clothes. Her husband 
 Ih-ockhurst had but on daughter by her, and father and daughter 
 bothc wear taken awav withe the great plauge in London in the
 
 fi MUKK 1 AMKLICUS. 
 
 litl year of (lucon Kli/.abctlu-; iin>\ leaving his widow «jI' competent 
 estiitc, she mttrycd afterward my father, he being yonger then she, 
 and of no great meancs, but civill, and likely to thrive. My mother 
 beinf' a widow maryed Thomas ruiCK,a marchant of London, that 
 had by her only on sun named George, now living, who was born 
 anno domini , the <lay of , in the year of the 
 
 raignc of queen Klizabethe. 
 
 This Thomas Price proved a notable iiiitluift, and a vcrye un- 
 kinde and insolent husband, so as jny mother, being destitute of 
 frendos, had these burdens lay upon her, the care to avoyd dayly 
 wrongs to herself from her husband, to preserve those portions that 
 wear left her cliildren, and to finde meanes to bring them up in 
 lerninf and civility; and by her cxtraordinarye providence and 
 patience did effect it, that she preserved in the handes of the city as 
 orphans' goods 600/., lor her fowcr suns everye of them 150/., and 
 by meanes underhand bought out the interest of her husband in 
 certcyne leases he had by lier, helde of the parishe of St. Dunstan's 
 in the Est, whiche, above the rent, proved worthe neer 50/. the 
 year, and wear for the term of 50 yeares and above; and by 
 sutchc care and admirable wisdom, almost not to be looked for in on 
 of her sex so afflicted withe the dayly miseries wroughte to her 
 from her husband, tlid bring up all her children in as good sort as 
 any gentleman in England wulde do, as in singing, dancing, playing 
 on the lute and otlier instruments, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and 
 Frcncbe tongues, and to write fair; everye on of them to that he 
 was likelycst to do good in, but all wear by her appoynted and directed 
 to the best course, that is, of lerning, and to have been professed 
 scholers, but sum tokc on way sum an other, yet she still persisted 
 her care in continuing them in this costly education, at sutche times 
 as she was not only dayly robbed and pilled by her cruell and wast- 
 full husband, but was most miserably afflicted in the law, by sutcs in 
 Chancerye and other courtes concerning that smalc stay she had 
 of the churche leases. And after she had broughtc up all her 
 children to man's estate, and buryed her unthriftye and unkinde
 
 Linr.U FAMKLKUfi. 7 
 
 husl):in<l, she soUlc these; louses lor a competent sum of money, and, 
 reserving u rent to licrselflor lier lile, did distribute tlic res^t among 
 her 8uns, and so, after many trobles, did passe the latter end of her 
 dayes in peace, contentment, and great devotion. 
 
 My niother was tlic daughter of .loiix CoLTE, and was bom at 
 Little Mundan in Ilartfordsliire in the lordsliip thear, l»er father 
 K'ing tenant of it, who liad heUle it long, and his ancetors before 
 him, as tenants to the ladye Bourchicr, heir of the house of Essex, 
 and her anceturs. 
 
 Her mother was Andukwes, born in Ilartfordsliire, and her 
 brother's sun and heir is siii William Anduewes, that was hi«'hc 
 shirife «)r Buckinghamshire 5° Jacobi. My mother and he wear 
 brother and sister's children, and of verye kindc acquayntance. Sir 
 William Andrewes was brought up in Grayes In, and was a coun- 
 selor of the law and practiscr, and, growing into a great estate, left liis 
 taking of paync, and betoke him self to a quiet life. 
 
 My grandfather John Colte had a brother called IJoHEUT CoLTE 
 that was a marchant of" London, whose sun was Colte of Wood- 
 
 wicks, father to John Colt of Woodwicks now living, and that 
 Robert Colte was father to my cosen Sands of Windsor, widow 
 
 first to on Lamson of London, then to ahlerman Woodcock, and 
 now widow to Miles Sands of the Miildle Temjile, that was clerk 
 of the crowne, and was brother to archbishop Sands of York. 
 
 My mother's bretheren and sisters that I knew and liave ij-.'5ue 
 living wear John, her eldest brother, that ilyed a verye olde man, 
 mutche above 80 ycares of age, and Thomas that dyed of the same 
 yeares. Christopher dyed at Elbing in Prussia, and Elizabethe 
 wife of on Fryer a marchant iii London, mother to Simon Fryer 
 now living at Elbing, and to Marye wife of Thomas Cokayne of 
 Clapham in the countyc of Surrye, gentleman, eldest brother to 
 ritclie ^\'illiam Cokavne of London. tlu> mariliant. ^liliif. and 
 alderman. 
 
 !j)MrxD, my eldest brother, was broughie up at school uiuicr 
 Mr. Iiichard Mulcuster, in the I'amous school of the Marchantavlors
 
 8 Mlir.K KAMKLICUS. 
 
 in London, and from tlioncc was sent to Cambridge to Christcs col- 
 Icdfc, whcar liavingbccn well grownded in the liberall sciences, and 
 mntchc fartbercd in bis knoled;i:c of tbc Latin, Greek, and Hebrew 
 toiif^s. in wbicbe be was well instructed in tbc grammer scbool, be 
 left tbe univcrsitye and came to Lincolncs In to study tbe common 
 law, wbear, baving spent bis time among to good cumpanions, be 
 betoke bimsclf to travail into forcyne kingdoms, by studyc and ex- 
 perience to redeem bis mispent time; and to tbat purpose toke sbip- 
 ping from London about Wbitsuntide 1587, and baving bestowed 
 mutcbe time in forein universities of Rostock, Witenberg, Pragc, 
 Rome, and otber places in Italy, Paris, and otber universities in 
 Fraunce, and baving traversed over almost all countries in cbris- 
 tendom,be fell into tbe good liking of mounsicur Desgnieres, governor 
 of Provance in Fraunce, and by bim was put into tbc cbarge of a 
 band of footmen, and in tbat service remayned captaync of tbat 
 band at Massilcs and Grenoble so long as tbose wars continued, and 
 afterward came to visit bis frends in J-^ngland, after bis absence out 
 of tbc realm for tbe space of almost a dozen yeares, witbout becring 
 of bim wbetbcr be wear alive or not, and being out of bope ever to 
 see bim. 
 
 After bis retorn into England, by reason of bis experience in 
 forcyne afHiyres, bis knoledge in tbe tongs, and pleasant bebaviour, 
 and f^reat libertye of bis wit in bis conversation, according to tbc 
 Frcncbe fasbion, be grew into great goodliking of many Englisbe 
 noblemen and gentlemen, but especially of Roger erl of Rutland,* 
 witbe wbome be lived and conversed a good wbile, and by bis 
 acquayntance witbe bim fell into an infortunate miscbance, for, on 
 tbe 8 of February IGOl, [44] Elizabetb, wben tbe branesik meeting 
 was of tbe noblemen witbe tbc erl of Essex at Essex House, tbe erl 
 of Rutland, tbat bad maryed tbc daugbtcr of tbe countesse of Essex 
 by ber first husband sir Pbilip Sydney, being sent for by tbe erl 
 to cum to bim, met capteyne Wbitelock in tbc street, and toke bim 
 alonL' witbe bim to Essex House, and so from tbence into tbe towne 
 
 • Roger M.innprs, carl of Rutlan.l 1588—1^12.
 
 LIHER FAMELICUS. 9 
 
 in the fooHshe mutinyc, and for his being in that companye, alth<jnghe 
 he retorned not hack t<j K«scx House, nor niude resistance withe the 
 rest, yet he was had in suteliesuspition, by reason that hewasknowcn 
 to bepragmaticall and niartiall, as that he was clapt up in Newgate, 
 tlien sent to the Marshalsea, and from tlience broughte to tlie 
 King's Benehe bar, to have been arraigned of highe treason, of 
 whiclie he was cndited, but being broughte in to the court of King's 
 Benehe was sent back againe, and afterward by privie seal, directed 
 to justice Gawdye, was among othei-s committed to free custody, 
 he to me, and others to tliear frends, and so continued untill lie was 
 quite discharged, whiche was shortly after. 
 
 This miserye, thoughe it had been bothe dangerous to his lite and 
 verye damageable to himself, and to me above all his frend;*, yet was 
 not it an expiation of all his calamities : for, after king James came 
 to the crowne, in the Parliament time, when the powder treason 
 sholde have been executed, it was his ill hap to dine togeather 
 withe the erl of Northumberland and Persey, the principall agent in 
 that treason, the day before it sholde have been executed, and by 
 reason thearof grew into great suspition withe the counsell, and by 
 them was first sent to the Tower, after to the Fleet, but, after long 
 imprisonment, was delivered, nothing appecring by any cxamina- 
 tiuns that he was acquaynted withe the businesse. After his deliver- 
 ance out of prison he lived with most dependancye upon the erl of 
 Northumberland,* and had licence to resort unto him in the Tower, 
 after his imprisonment thear upon the censure in the Starchamber. 
 and so passed his time in mirtheand good companye untill ho dvod, 
 
 • There are several papers in the State Paper Office relating to this charge against capt. 
 Kdmund Whitilocke: see especially the letters of Timothy lllks, 1*311, July 16 an<l Sept. 
 '2S, noticed in Mrs. Green's Calendar of the Domestic Papers of king James I. It would 
 seem that the earl of Xorthuiul>erland allowed capt. Whitelocke a pension of 40/., afterwards 
 increa«ed to 60/. Among his friends are enumerated the earl of Westmorland, " who 
 gave him money," and mr. Kmerson, of Little St. Helen's, •' who rclievetl him very often," 
 Mr. Martin of the Tenipln, Inigo Jone*, and sir Henry Ciowlyere, were also " much con- 
 vernant " with him. A slight acijuaintance between sir Walter Kaleigli and capt. White- 
 Ux-ko occasional Raleigh to be suspected of a knowledge of the plot. 
 
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 10 LIHEK FAMELICUS. 
 
 wliiche was of a surfeit, by distemper of the weather, about Barthol- 
 inew tide 1608. He was then at Xewliall in Essex, withe the erl 
 of Sussex,* and foil into suche a distemper of body by the unseason- 
 ableness of the weather, boinpr cxtream hot, and by his overcare- 
 lessnesse in the ordering of himself, that he was taken withe an ex- 
 traordinaryc loosenesse of bodye, whiche weakened him verye 
 mutclie, and upon it was let blud, and not long after went away 
 quietly as in a slumber. He was honorably buryed by the erl of 
 Sussex in the chappell of his ancetors, and was attended to the 
 buryall by the erl himself.f He was well grownded in leming, bothe 
 philosophye and all other humanitye, and well seen in the tongs, 
 bothe lerned and ordinarie, as the Frenche, Italian, Dutche, Spanishe, 
 but especially in the Frenche, whiche he acted so naturally as he 
 was taken for a Frencheman whear he was not knowen. He was 
 exceeding pleasant in his conceit, and so good a companion that he 
 was mutche esteemed of for that by divers great men. He was ex- 
 tream prodigall and wastefuU in his expence, verye valiant, as was 
 reported by those that knew his demeanor in forein countrycs, and 
 by that he did heer at home ; for, in the great quarrell between the 
 erl of Northumberland and sir Frauncis Vere.J he caryed the chal- 
 lenge from the erl to sir Frauncis into his owne lodging, and ther 
 delivered it unto him, and having afterward herd of sura shamefull 
 speeches given against him by the knight, meeting sir Frauncis in 
 his coatche on morning, cumming from Wilton, whear the king lay, 
 
 * Robert Ratcliffe, earl of Sussex 1593—1629. 
 
 t The observations of sir James Whitelocke on the death, interment, and character 
 of his brother Edmund, arc singularly borne out by a letter of Dudley Carleton, dated 
 20 Sept., 1608, to a knowledge of which I have been led by Mrs. Green's Calendar 
 of the Domestic Papers of James I. in the State Paper Office. The letter is addressed to 
 John Chamberlain. "All the newes," the writer remarks, " I have for you is, that capt. 
 Whitlock, in this miserable time, moran' inter homines desiit, who is so lamented by all bon 
 companions as yf the world had not bin worthy of him. His death was sodaine, as were 
 all the actions of his life, and as he livde amongst lords, so was he buried in a vault 
 amongst my lord of Sussex' ancestors, at whose house he died." 
 
 J The particulars of the " great quarrel " alluded to are printed in the old editions 
 of CtiUins's Peerage: see vol. v. p. 428, edit. 1768.
 
 I.llihK I AMKLICUS. 
 
 11 
 
 unto Salisburye, he stayed his coutche, and came to the side of it, 
 and provoked sir Frauncis to fighte withe liini, but he answeared 
 he was not provided for sutche a businesse. Thearupon the capteyne 
 drew out his sword, and ottered it to sir Frauncis, and tolde him 
 he woldc furnishehim, and toke another from his boy, but the sage 
 knight put liim of, and was content to part rather withe a disgrace- 
 ful! word then a blow, but thes being herd of at the court, warrants 
 wear sent out for him by tlie counsell, so that he was fayne for a 
 good while to hide himself; and this was in ]\Iichaclmas terra 1" 
 Jacobi, when by reason of the siknesse the term was kept at Win- 
 chester. 
 
 KiCilAHD, my second brother, was sent over sea, being about 
 the age of sixteen yeares, unto Christopher Colte, my mother's 
 brother, to Dansk, and lived withe him in travail in tliose estern 
 countries untill he came to man's estate; and afterward raaryed a 
 gentlewoman of that countrye, on Katharin Dambits, by whome he 
 hathe many children. He hathe tasted of many varieties of fortune, 
 sumtime good and sumtime bad, and hathe travayled over many 
 countries, and by the unccrteynty of tralique hathe susteyned great 
 losses in his estate. By reason that his wife had a good patrimony 
 of land by enheritance Irom her father, he abidethe at Elbing and 
 those partes, whear slie was born and her land lyethe. 
 
 William, that was the elder born of us two, was broughte up 
 withe the rest in Icrning, but had no minde to it, and thorfure was 
 bound apprentice to a marchant in London, but when the Portugal! 
 voyage was undertaken, he left maister and thrift and all, and put 
 himself into the action, and so fell from that civill course to a martiall 
 life. He was brought up from shipbord, at his return, in a sheet, lie 
 was so extream weak, and tlid hardly recover again by my mother's 
 
 frreat tendernesse of him, and, when he was well againe, followed 
 
 o 
 
 the warrs altogeather. 
 
 He served sir iMauncis Drake in his ehamber, and followed him 
 to the (iroin, an.l his other sea voyages, and behaved himself veryo 
 valiantly, to the goudliking of his maister, and so continued in his
 
 12 LIBER FAMKLICUS. 
 
 scivicr lint ill sir l^raiincis dyct] at sea, at wliichc time lie was nccrest 
 about liim, aiul put on his armor upon liima little before his deathc, 
 whic'he lie wolde have doon, that he might dy like a soldiour. Sir 
 I'rauneis gave him divers ritehe legacies of plate and Jewells at his 
 (loathe, Init lie was ransaked of all by the brother of sir Frauncis, 
 and by nieer wrong barred from his maistcr's bountyc. lie followed 
 that course of life, untill at the last, going forthe in a ship of war 
 from London to the Indian seas, he lost his life in a conilict withe the 
 Spanyards. lie was a verye tall young man, strong of l)ody, flaxen 
 hear, fair of complexion, exceeding wastfuU in expence, and carc- 
 Icsse of all worldly matters that tended to thrift. He was about the 
 age of 27 yeares olde when he dj'cd. 
 
 I was brought up at school under mr. Mulcaster, in the famous 
 scliool of the Marchantaylors in London, whear I continued untill 
 
 I was well instructed in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongs. His care 
 was also to encreas my skill in musique, in whiche I was brought 
 up by dayly exercise in it, as in singing and playing upon instru- 
 ments, and yearly he presented sum playes to the court, in whiche 
 his scholers wear only actors, and I on among them, and by that 
 nieancs taughte them good behaviour and audacitye. I was elected 
 from the school to be orobationer of St. John's Colledfje in Oxon, 
 
 II Junij, 1588, mr. Frauncis AVillis being then president of the 
 colledge, but the electors of the col ledge then present wear, liaphe 
 Ruvens, then master of art and vice-president of the colledge, and 
 John Pcrin, then master of art and also a senior fellow, now doctor 
 oi' divinitye, and the last Greek reader of Oxon; the third was 
 William Dixon, that sithence died a beneficed man in Kent. 
 
 Thear was chosen withe nie, at that time, out of the school, George 
 AVrighte, sun of Thomas AVrighte of London, vintencr, that dwelt at 
 the Bore'ti Hed in Estcheap, who sithence, having good enheritancc 
 descended to him, is now clerk of the kind's stable and a knifdite, u 
 verye discreet and honest gentleman. 
 
 That summer after was the terril)le shew of the sea armada 
 from Spayne, whiche was a little distemper to the quiet course of
 
 studyos, the countiyt's bciui,' all up in anncs. My tutor was Row- 
 laiitl Scarelilcild,* then u yong bachelor o( arts, now a doctor of 
 divlnityc [afterward bishop of Bristol! f]. I continued the study of 
 l<>^t,d(iu(' and the artes, but above all of hi«toryc; in whichc I tokc 
 fj'reat delite, and especially in Titus Livius, in whoine I was vcrye 
 perfect, and labored mutche in the Hebrew and (Jreek ton^s, for I 
 had herd a reader of the Hebrew tong at London that was reputed tlie 
 fiimosest in that language about the towne. His name was Hop- 
 kinson, he dwelt in (uub Street, an obscure and simple man for 
 worldly affiiyres, but export in all the lefthand tongr^, as Hebrew, 
 Chaldean, Syrian, Arabian, and writ them vcrye fair: he had at tliat 
 time great lerned men that consulted him in those languages, and 
 especially dr. Andrews tliat is now bishop of Chichester. | 
 
 He red unto me all dubo, and twenty Psalmes, and a part of Genesis, 
 and after I had taken my lecture from him, whiehe was after five of 
 the clok that I went from school, I woldc duly, after supper, make a 
 praxis of that I had herd, and set it downe in writing; by reason 
 whearof, the winter before my going to Oxon, I sate up duly everye 
 nightc unlill 12 of the clok or veryc neer, and this brouLrht me 
 into a dangerous disease in my legs, so tliat I had ten or twelve 
 issues running on them continually, whiehe made me veryc iltint, 
 insomutche tluit I sholdc fall in (pialmes verye often; but before 
 my going to Oxon, I was let blud and cured, and thear Avithc 
 violent exercise kept my full bodye, and growing humours, in low 
 state. 
 
 I red Aristotle in (Jreek, and spent my time diligi'utlv in lotriuue 
 and the artes. 1 was bound to study, by the order of the house, un- 
 till November, 1.389, and then upon the resignation of on mr. Ko^er 
 Web, a fellow of the collcdge and a bachelor of the law, I was 
 admitted into his [)lace of a civilian, and so made a lellow of the 
 collcdge. 
 
 ^ly minde IkhI a f.nthcr rt'atthe, lor I ever had a purpose to avme 
 
 • Kowlaiul Searclitiilil, vicar of Cliarlldiry, i-o. Oxford, l)islii)i) «>f Bristol 101 1> ]ij>'22. 
 
 t Sulisfiiuciitly inserted. + Lancelot An<lre\vis, liisliop of C'liicliester 1005 — lOOi*.
 
 14 LlllEi: i-AMKLICUS. 
 
 at the study of the common law. My ownc observation, and tlic 
 experience of my mother, of the best courses, pcrswaded me to 
 draw that way as conveniently as 1 coidde, and therforc be^^an to 
 joyne the study of the common law withe the civill, being encoraged 
 mutchc thcarunto by a book set out by dr. Cosins, the dean of the 
 arclies, intituled, " An apologyc of the ecclesiastical proceedings,"* 
 in whiche 1 saw how great use he made of his knoledge of the 
 common law to upholde the autliority of his ownc profession, and 
 to direct others of his place. 
 
 i\Iy only exercise of body 1 used, was hunting of the hare on foot, 
 whiche I used very labouriously, but never so as tliat I detracted my 
 times of study or scholasticall exercises by it. 
 
 ^Iv purpose so succeeded wlthc me as that I became admitted into 
 New In in Michaelmas term l.')9(), and went into commons thcar for 
 a while, but was not knowen to any of tlic colledge to intend any 
 sutche course, for, out of the term at London, I kept the colledge, 
 and my exercises thear, as I had doon before. 
 
 I was admitted of the Middle Temple 2° Martii 1592, and kept in 
 commons from that time, at all sutche times as I coulde have dayes, 
 by ordinarye licence, by grace, or for furthering of the colledge 
 businesse, to be absent from thence. 
 
 Keeping thus by turnes in bothe places, I did my exercise in the 
 divinity school, for my degree of bachclar of the civill law, in 
 Lent 1594, togcathcr withe mr. Thomas May and on mr. Wood, a 
 fellow of Allsoules, and 1 was presented baclielor of law, togeather 
 withe mr. Thomas May, by Albcricus Gontilis,t regius professor in 
 law, at Mldi^ummer 1594. 
 
 I held my colledge still, but almost nltogeather in commonp at 
 London, for the president that tlun was, mr. Raphe IIuchons<»n, 
 that succeeded doctor Willis, was willing to allow me dayes in the 
 colledge behalf, to dispatche them of thear businesses and chargeable 
 
 • Lon.lon, I to. 1593. 
 
 t Doctor of civil law of the university of Perugia, incorporatetl at Oxford (j .Marcli, 
 1581. Wood's Fasti, i. 217.
 
 LinER FAMELICU8, 15 
 
 journeys to London; and so I kept my rdlowship untill thecollcdge 
 thou^dit lit I sholdc inakt; :i pliire voyd, whicho was at tlic election 
 11 Junij, 1598. About two yeares alter, tliat was in Augu-t 1600, 
 I was called to the bar by jur. Nicolas Overbury ot" Gloccstershire, 
 then reader. 
 
 At Michaelina.s Idol tlie colledge of St. John in Oxon iK'Stowed 
 on me the t^tewardship of thear lands, and nir. Ilieroni Xashe then 
 left it. 
 
 9 September, 1()02, at Bceuui-lield, in the countye of Bucking- 
 ham, I maryed Elizabethc Bulstrode, eldest daughter of Edward 
 Bulstrode esquier, who was tlien dcd, and of C'ecill his wife, daughter 
 of olde mr. Croke olCiiilton, afterward sir John Croke, and 1 hade 
 witlie her a competent portion, as in tlic deeds of our mariage ar 
 expressed. She was born at Ilugley Bulstrodes, in the countye of 
 Buckingham, the last of July 1575; so she was 27 year olde, and 1 
 within two monethe of 32, when we wear marycil. Her father dyed 
 about seven yeares beibre. He lived in good creadit in his countrye, 
 and had been highe shirif thearof, and long in commissiion of the 
 peace. His ancctors had been of verye ancient continuance in Buck- 
 inghamshire, and born the best and most worshipfull offices in the 
 countrye. 
 
 I had ol my mother in law for portion oOO/. in reaily money, my 
 wife verye well appareled and furnished withe Jewells, as withe the 
 border she now hathe, and other good ons beside, and I had my bord 
 gratis on year and an half; see the covenants of mariage. 
 
 Elizabetiie, my eldest childe, was born at Beconsfeild, in the 
 countye of Buckingham, 6 October, 1603, and was christened thear. 
 Her godfather was mr. George Croke of the Inner Temple; her god- 
 mothers, my wife's grandmother the olde lady Croke, who gave her 
 her owne name, and my wife's mother mistress Cccill Bowstrcd. 
 
 BULSTUODE WiHTEL<)CK,my sun, was born in Fleet Street house, 
 6 August, 160.>, and was christened thear in St. Dunstan's churche.* 
 
 * "Aug. I;*. llulstrtHlo iioii t)f Jaini>« Wliiu-lockc gentleman." Kogistcr of St. 
 nunfttun'it, ill C'lillcctanua Topogr. et (.-Jfiiottl. v. 30'.'.
 
 1() Lir.KU 1 AMKLICUS. 
 
 His o-odl'atlicis wear inr. lleiuy Buliitrodc of Ilcdgely liulstioiles, my 
 wile's eldest brother, and Captcyn Whitelock, my brother; his god- 
 mother was iny ownc mother. He was christncd 19 August, lOO.j. 
 
 Mahyk, my daughter, was born at Iledgely Bulstrodcs, in liuck- 
 iu'diamsliirc, G October, lOOfi, and was christned in the chappell 
 thear, 16 October following. Her godfather was mr. John Buck- 
 ridn-e, doctor of divinity, jn'csident of St. John's Colledgc in Oxon, 
 archdeacon of Northampton, canon of Windsor, prebend of Here- 
 ford, and vicar of St. Giles in London, iny ancient frcnd and coUeguc 
 in St. John's coUedge in Oxon;* her godmothers wear my brother 
 Ikilstrode's wile, that was mr. Thomas licadc's daughter ol" ]5ark- 
 shirc, and An Bulstrode, my wife's sister. 
 
 I was made Recorder oi' ^^^)odstock 1 Augusti, 1606. 
 
 On the 21st of February, 1606, 4 Jacobi, dyed my kinde, godly 
 and loving mother, having lived a goodly time; thecerteyn number 
 of yeares she could not tell, but herself and her kindred reconed her 
 neer fourskore. She overlived all her bretheren and sisters, saving 
 on, that was Thomas, who was elder than she, and lay sik when she 
 died, ether comforting other withe messages of thear desire to depart. 
 She went away even withe olde age as a candle that goethe out. 
 She did brcake mutch the beginning of winter, and so drooped 
 untill she toke her bed, whiche was about a monethe before she 
 dyed. She toke her leave divers times of me and the rest, expecting 
 to dy that nighte, but it pleased God to continue her longer than she 
 expected, and she departed about 2 of the clock in the afternoon, 
 and 1 was withe her about 12. She had her senses and meinorye to 
 the last gasp, and was full of spirit and comfort among her children, 
 and she often remembred herself on her deathe bed to my wife and 
 cliildrcn, whomc she loved most deerly. She was buryed in Alder- 
 marye churche, in the chauncell thear, 25 February. She dyed in 
 that parishe, and thear preached at her funerall doctor John Done, 
 the parson, that had been my acciuayntance when he was of Christ- 
 churche in Oxford. 
 
 * Afterwards bishop of Rochester IGIO— 102?, and of Ely 1G2S— 1G31.
 
 I.IUEK FAMKLICUS. 17 
 
 Cecill, MY DAUGUTEU, was born in Fleet Street house, lOMartij, 
 1607j 5 Jacobi. Shewascliristencdin St. Dunstan's cburclic,26Martij, 
 being Ester even. Her i^odCatlicr was sir Jolni Harrington, knighto 
 of the bathe, sun and heir to tlie lord Harrington, and on of the 
 prince's gentlemen <jrdlnarye ; her godmothers, my wif(.-'s sisters Cecill 
 and Dorothy BulstnKld, gentlewomen of the queen's bed chamber. 
 
 In June 1608, my mother in law, mrs. Cecill Bulstrod, maryed 
 sir John Browne, of Flamberds in Essex. He is descended <>f 
 Browne that was maior of London in Edward the 4. his raii'ne. 
 
 The 7 day of Februaryc 1608, dyed at London, Henry Ckoke, 
 my wife's unckle ; he was judge of the maior's court, in London, 
 and on of the commissioners for lines for alienations. 
 
 The 10 day of Februar. 1608, dyed at Chilton in Buckingham- 
 shire SIR John Croke, my wife's grandfather. He was the first 
 sheriff of Buckinghamshire after the statute. His father was on of 
 the six clerkes when cardinal Woolscy was chancelor, and on of the 
 lirst that was maryed after the statute made for enabling them to 
 marye. He, sir John, was born anno 1531, 4 Junii, 23 Henry YHL, 
 so when he dyed he was 77 year olde and 8 monethes and od dayes. 
 He left behinde him Elizabethe his wife, who liad lived withe him 
 in matrimonye since May 1553, whiche was almost fifty-six yeares. 
 She was the daughter of sir Alexander Linton of Barkshirc, and 
 sister to sir Edward Unton. 
 
 Old mr. Croke, the fiither of sir John, was on of the maistei-s of 
 the chancery when he dyed, as appeercthc by his tomb in Chilton 
 churche; he was buryed a" 1554. 
 
 The mother of the olde lady was Cecill BoAvstrcd, daughter of 
 Edward Bowstred, fiithor of George, fatlier of Thomas, father of 
 Edward my wife's father, and was a mayd of honor to Kathcrin 
 first wife of Henry A'lll., and by that means was maryed to sir 
 Alexander Unton of Barksliiro, who had gootl iavour and benefit by 
 the matche. She lyethe buryed at Farington in Barkshire. After 
 the deathe of sir Alexander she maryed mr. Koylway, surveyor 
 of the Court of Wardes, by whome she had the lord Harington's wife. 
 
 CAMD. SOC. D
 
 18 LIUEU FAMELICUS. 
 
 An Bowstked, iny wife's sister, 24 Junij 1609, at Hedgcly 
 Bulstrodes, was mavyed to John Scarl of Lincoln's In, esquicr and 
 counselor at law. Then he dwelt in the towne of Southampton. He 
 had 500/. in money withe her, and 40/. toward her apparell, and 
 made her a lOOl. the year joynture. 
 
 Cecill Bulstrode, my wife's sister, gentlewoman to queen An, 
 ordinarye of her bedchamber, dyed at Twitnam in Middlesex, the 
 erl of Bedford's house, 4 August 1609. 
 
 Joan WhiteloCK my fourthe daughter was born at Hedgely 
 Bulstrodes, the 6 of August 1609, and christined in the chappell 
 thear upon Fryday the eighteenthe day of the same monethe. Her 
 crodfather was my brother Searl; her godmothers, Eliza, wife of sir 
 John Tirrell, of Heron in the countye of Essex, kuighte, and sister 
 to my wife's mother; the other godmother was mrs. Elizabeth 
 Waller of Beconsfeild, widow.* I was desirous to have her named 
 Joan, in memorye of my good and kinde mother, who had that name. 
 The 6 day of December 1609, anno 7 Jacobi Regis, I was made 
 steward of Eton Colledge by Windsor, and the same day the 
 provost and fellowes did appoynt me to be thear counsell for the 
 coUedf^e, and for that to have 4/. annuity by the year, besides the 
 fees in my patent for the stewardship. These places became voyd 
 in the colledge by the departure of mr. Denham into Ireland. This 
 mr. John Denham was a reader in Lincolnes In, and, being a man 
 verye well thought of for his lerning and discretion, in Ester term, 
 7 Jacobi, was made sergeant at law and knighted, and so sent cheef 
 baron into Ireland. He succeeded in these places in Eton Colledge 
 mr. Richard Tredway, that was a doble reader in the Inner Temple. 
 The meanes I had to cum by these places was only the goodwill 
 of sir Henrye Savill, the provost, towards me, who sent unto me to 
 cum to him, and toldc me he had had many sutors for it, but had 
 kept it for me. I never spake word to him, or any man else, of it 
 before. 
 
 * Grandmother of the poet.
 
 LIBKIi FAMKLICUS. 19 
 
 My unkle George Croke was admitted of the Inner Temple, 
 Hilary, 17 Elizabeth; was called to the bar, Hilary, 26 Elizabeth. 
 
 Memorandum, that the 9 of February 1609, being the first day of 
 the session of Parliament, I was retorned burgesse for the borroughe 
 of Woodstock, in the countye of Oxford, in the place of sir Richard 
 Lea, brotlier of sir Henrye Lea, that dyed burgesse. It was ever 
 usual with them to elect thear recorders burgeses; but, my lord 
 chcef barron being recorder tliear when he was sergeant at law, was 
 chosen knighte of the shire, and by reason thearof sir Richard 
 Lea and mr. Thomas Spencer, sun and heir of sir William 
 Spencer of Yarnton in Oxfordshire, wear chosen burgeses. 
 
 Joan, my yongest daughter, dyed at Beconsfeild the 8 of May 
 1610, and was buryed in the churche thear. 
 
 The seventh day of May 1610, I was by patent made joynt 
 steward with Lewes Prowd of Lincolns In esquier, of the lands and 
 possessions of Westminster CoUedge, and joynt grantee of the yearly 
 fee of 10^. between us. I came in by the surrender of 
 GosnoU of the Middle Temple, and by the favour and frendship of 
 doctor Richard Xeel, bishop of Rochester, and dean of the colledge 
 of Westminster [elect of Litchefeild].* 
 
 My verye good frend mr. justice Williams was removed out of 
 Oxfordshire circuit, whear I had followed him sithence his first 
 cumming into it, whiche was in Lent 1" et 2° Jacobi, the second 
 Lent of the king's raigne, and the next Lent after his being made a 
 judge, Avhiche was the last day of Hilary term 1° Jacobi, and he was 
 joyned withe the lord Cook in the Norfolk circuit, and into the 
 Oxford circuit was sent in his place sir John Croke, on of the justices 
 of the King's Benche, brother to my wife's mother. [This summer 
 assises 1610 and Lent following, and then justice Williams came 
 back, and justice Croke went into Norfolkf.] 
 
 * The words witliiii liraekets were inserted afterwards. Dr. Neile was successively 
 l.ishop of Rochester, 16(tS-10; of Liehliold and Coventry, lClO-lfil.3 ; of Lincoln, 1613- 
 1617; of Durham, 1617-1627; of Winchester, 1627-1632; of York 1032-161O. 
 
 t Inserted afterwards.
 
 20 LIIJEK FAMELICUS. 
 
 M\ DAUGHTER DoROTiiYE was boiii ill my liousc ill Fleet Street, 
 in the parislie of St. Diinstan's in the West, the 15 day of September 
 1610, in the 8 year of the raignc of king James. The christning 
 was appoynted to have been the second of October following, and 
 godfather was invited mr. Ilumfrey IMay, on of the groomes of the 
 king's privic chamber; godmothers the lady Wrighte, widow of sir 
 Robert Wrighte, and mrs. Marye Crokc, wife of mr. George Croke, 
 my wife's uncklc. The childe was a verye strong childe, likely to 
 have lived, but was trobled withe an extream stuffing of fleam, 
 having caughte a colde, as it was judged, in the verye birthe, her 
 mother having a long and difficult delivcrye, in so mutche as, upon 
 Sunday morning, about 7 of the clock, being the last day of 
 September, fearing it mighte dye before we wear aware, seing a 
 great change in it, and desirous to have it christened before it shold 
 go out of the worldc, I did desire mr. Richard Martin of the 
 Middle Temple to undergoe the place of a deputy for mr. May, and 
 mrs. Crokc, widow of mr. Henry Crokc, to be deputy for my ladye 
 Wri<Tlite, and so, withe the presence of mr. George Croke's wife, the 
 other godmother, I cawsed it to be christened by the minister, in my 
 house, 30 September 1610, at 7 of the clok in the morning. The 
 childe lani'uished and dyed the same day between on and two of the 
 clok in the afternoon, and was buryed on Llonday the first of 
 October followinrr, in St Dunstan's churchc, and so God toke her to 
 his immediate provision, that if she had lived in this worlde mighte 
 after many yeares have been farther from the assurednesse of etcrnall 
 happinesse. 
 
 I gave her the name of Dorothy for the respect I had of her 
 godmother, THE lady Wkighte, whose name was Dorothye. 
 She was first tbe widow of mr. Francis Ham[?] a pensioner, and 
 was then maryed to Robert Wrighte w^ho was tutor to the crl of 
 Essex, last attainted, and continued withe him in service untill he 
 was prefeiTcd by him to be clerk to the stable to queen Elizabethe, 
 the erl being then maister of the horse. After the king came to the 
 crowne he was knighted by him, and so lived and dyed a grave
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. 21 
 
 and sober man, meanly born in Shrewsbury, l)ut attayned by his 
 virtue to good estate and quality. She had no issue by ether husband. 
 Mr. George Croke's wife was Marye Bennet, on of the 
 daughters of sir Thomas Bennet, late maior of London. She was 
 maryed to mr. George Croke, being an ancient bachelor, withein a 
 year or thearabouts of 50, and she under 20 yeares of age. This 
 fel out unexspected to his frendcs, tliat liad conceaved a purpose in 
 liini never to have maryed. 
 
 Mr. IIumfrey ISIay wa.s the sun of mr. Ricliard May, a 
 worshipfull citisen of London, and my acquayntance began withe 
 him in St. John's Colledge in Oxon, at my first being thcar, anno 
 1588. I came in June, and he in September following, and from 
 that time we continued good frcndes untill we came chamberfellowes 
 to the Middle Temple, and lived so togeather manye yeares, he 
 being a towardly student, and a principal reveller. At the lord 
 Mountjoy's going into Ireland, doctor Latewar and he went over in 
 ordinary withe the baron, and so lived thear withe him untill the 
 baron returned. After the king came to the crown, and the lord 
 Mountjoy was created erl of Devonshire, and made a principal 
 counselor, mr. May got into the place of a grome of the privic 
 chamber, by buying out a Skot that had it. 
 
 Gawcn Champineys, my first clerk that 1 had, came to me at 
 Whitsuntide, 40 Elizabethe. 
 
 Anthonye Bull came to me in Hilary term, 45 Elizabethe, 1602; 
 the term before the deathe of good queen Elizabethe. 
 
 John Grifliuj my servant, came unto me at ^lichaelmas 1606. 
 [Went from me at ^lidsummer 1613, sed rediit statim.*'\ 
 Richard Oakly came unto me, Trinity term 1609. 
 I was possessed of a farm in Oxfordshire, ncer Witney, whiche I 
 bought of on Richard Brian; thcar being 7 yeares to cum in my 
 estate of an olde lease made by sir Thomas Pope in Henry the 8 
 raigne, the reversion being in sir William Pope, of Wroxton, in 
 com. Oxon. when I boughte it, whiche was in Trinity term, 4 
 
 • Added subsequently.
 
 22 LIBER FAMELICU8. 
 
 Jacobi. And having a great liberty to cut "woods by my lease, 1 made 
 oiler of it to sir William Pope, and referred it to mr. Thomas 
 Chambcrleyn of Grayes In, being of his counsell, to arbitrate what 
 I shold have, and he made an end and agrement between us, by 
 whiche sir "Williani Pope shold have had all my interest in the 
 thing, during the term, at an Improved rent; but the gentleman 
 skorned it anrl me, and thcrforc, in Lent following, 1 cawsed about 
 1,200 trees of oldo growethe to be cut down in a coppice called Coggs 
 Coppice, whiche 1 had no sooner doon but sir William Pope took 
 possession of the wood by force, entrenched up the gates, kept thear 
 a garrison, and committed many outrages, as by the proceedings 
 in court dothe appeer. 
 
 At summer assises following, whiche was 5 Jacobi, divers actions 
 wear brought downe against me and those that had boughte the 
 wood of me, to be tryed at Oxford assises, but the knighte durst 
 not proceed in any of them. 
 
 I gave information to the justices of assise, in the open assises, of 
 the outrages had been committed by sir William in the woods kept 
 from me by force, and of his contempts to the justices of assises' 
 warrant, for whiche misdemenors, he was commanded of from the 
 benche, sitting next to the lord Say, to the custody of the shirif, 
 untill he found security by recognisance, himself in 500/., to bring 
 forthe sum of the rioters he had set on work. I remember when he 
 arrose up in his place upon the benche, making accoumpt toanswear 
 the accusation, thear as ho stood, he was commanded by the court 
 to go to the bar, and justice Yelverton told him he was fitter to 
 leade the rebells in Northampton, (whiche lately beibre had * been in 
 commotion,) then to sit thear as a justice of peace. Thear was 
 great speaking and talking over all the countrye, of this noble and 
 stout peece of justice, shewed by these worthy judges, sir David 
 Williams and sir Christopher Yelverton, justices of assise. 
 
 The force was removed by the order of the justices, but they wear 
 no sooner gone out of the countrye onward thear circuit, but sir 
 
 ' at in orig.
 
 LIBEli FAMELICUS. 23 
 
 William Pope began new niischeefes, and in my absence in the 
 circuit, withe a replevin fetched irom London, being generally de 
 bonis et catallis, came to the wood withe 200 cartes, and caryed 
 away all my wood. 
 
 Not contented withe this, he coniplayncd to the king of" mr. justice 
 Williams, that he had unjustly disgraced him, and wrongfully im- 
 prisoned him, making tlirther complaynt oi" partiall dealing. The 
 king required the whole body of tlie counscll to examin the truthe 
 of it. They herd the matter in Michaelmas terna 5 Jacobi, bothe 
 parties being present, the judge and the knighte, and upon hearing 
 committed the knighte withe great disgrace to the Fleet, and acquited 
 the judge to his great honor, as by thoar urdcrr cntred in the coun- 
 sell book dothe appeer. 
 
 The knighte molested me exceedingly withe sutes in the King's 
 Benche, Chancerye, and Common Pleas, but did quickly lag in all 
 of them. 1 preferred a bill in the Starchamber against him and his, 
 Michaelmas term, 5 Jacobi, to whiche sum that answered began to 
 confesse the truthe, so as mr. Chamberleyne was made a mean to 
 take up the matter, but I had an expresse commando from the chan- 
 celor not to compound without the privity of the court. I therforc had 
 leave of him in Trinity term, G Jacobi, and hail an end presently 
 after by selling of all my interest unto him. 
 
 My counsell in the chancerye wear mr. James Wallrond and mr. 
 John Walter; in the Starchamber, sir Edward Philips, the king's 
 Serjeant, and mr. Walter. 
 
 This is the abstract of my troble withe that knighte, hut the whole 
 cariage of the eawse will lully appeer in the bookes of pleadings and 
 proceeding in the several 1 courtes in whiche our sutes wear depending. 
 
 This siu William Popk came to all his land from sir Thomas 
 Pope, elder brother to John his father, whiche sir Thomas dyed 
 without issue, being a man of great possessions, whiche he attcyncd 
 unto by his service to Henry VJU. at the suppression anil afterward 
 in the Court of Augmentations. Sir Thomas Pope was the sun of 
 a poor and mean man in Deddington, or Denington, in comit.
 
 24 LIBER FAMELIOUS. 
 
 Oxon. within 4 miles of Banburyc and over against Somerton, and 
 was born thcar; was brouglu up from a boy as a skribe and clerk by 
 mr. John Crook, on of the six clerkes when Wolscy was chancclor, 
 and so lived witlic mr. Croke untill after the suppression. The lord 
 Awdly made a motion to mr. Croke to help him to sum ready and 
 expert clerk to imploy in the king'.s service about the suppression 
 businessc, and mr. Crooke preferred Thomas Pope unto him, being 
 then his houshuld servant in liverye, whiche was the first true step of 
 all his following good fortune. This mr. Croke was my wife's great- 
 grandflither, and I have herd her grandfather sir John Croke often 
 say, that at his christning Tho. Pope, then his father's man, caryed 
 the bason, and sir Thomas Pope by his will gave this sir John Croke 
 sum of his best rayment, as a token of his love unto the house and 
 familyc. 
 
 In the Session of Parliament February 1609, the setting on 
 of impositions by the king upon marchants' goods without assent of 
 parliament was presented as a greevance, but it was shaken of by 
 the king's Icrned counsell upon the creadit of the judgment given in 
 the Eschequer in the case of the currants. But this did not satisfye 
 me, for I only opposed my self at the first to the recciting of it, and 
 so toke hold a little. It was put of untill another time, and then I 
 tokc better hold, and at the last it came to a dispute in the house 
 manye dayes, whether it shold be presented in poynt of right as a 
 greevance, and it was concluded, upon full satisfaction by ancient 
 recordes out of the Tower and Eschequei-, and by many statutes. 
 The whole proceeding is otherwise amplye related by the clerk of 
 the parliament, and sec my treatise, whearin is expressed the most 
 alledgcd for the righte of the subject. 
 
 I do not entend to report any thing doon in the parliament house 
 in this book, whiche I imploy to meaner matters, but I have among 
 ray papers the grevances exhibited, bothc spirituall and temporall. 
 I was acquajmted only withe the temporall ; thcar i? also bothe the 
 king's answers, the remonstrance sent unto him by the house upon 
 his inhibition to restreyn us to dispute his righte to impose, and
 
 Lini:il FAMELICU9. 25 
 
 yow shall findo also, withe iny argument of the Impositions, the 
 copies of all the recordos cited. 
 
 My daughter Marye dyed the 3 day of Jum- 1011, in my house 
 in Fleet Street, of a coughe of whiche she lay silc in great extremityo 
 above three weekes, and Avas consumed by it unto nothing. Sho 
 departed this life between the howers of 1 and 2 in the mourning, 
 and was burycd in St. Dunstan's churche the 5 day of June 
 following; she shold have been 6 yeares olde on the fi day of 
 October following. 
 
 Upon Midsummer day, early in the morning, dyed at Chilton, 
 dame Elizabeth Croke, widow of sir John Croke, my wife's grand- 
 mother. She was 73 yeares of age upon the feast of the Annuntia- 
 tion 1611. She gave my wife by will a salt gilt of 12 oz., and 51. 
 to my daughter Elizabeth, her goddaughter, and certeyne linnen 
 to my wife. 
 
 An wife of John Serl, and sister to my wife, having laycn long 
 at phisik to be cured of the distraction of her minde, which held her 
 withe a kinde of mopishenesse and a religious desperatenesse, still 
 crying out of her sins, and shewing fear of God's judgements against 
 her, dyed in October 1011, at the house of on Panton in Sussex, 
 whcar she lay at cure, and being broughte to more quictnessc of 
 mynde and to hope of recoverye. She was a very modest religious 
 gentlewoman as ever I knew any, and ever lived [a] most godly 
 and virtuous life. 
 
 On Richard Scot that dwelled in Cluar House before me, that 
 was to leave it at Michaelmas 1610, at whiche time his term ended 
 and myne began, being stirred to malice bycaus he mightc not keep 
 it, committed great wast upon two or three dayes before his term 
 ended, for whiche I commenced a sute against him in the Eschequer 
 chamber, in the name of Andrew Windsor, lessee for years to the 
 king of the house wasted, and recovered, this term of St. Michael 
 1611, 30/. damages, and 10/. costcs of sute. 
 
 Dorothy sister to my wife, that had maryed sir John E}t, 
 sun and heir of sir William Eyr, of Wiltshire, without consent of 
 
 CAMD. 80C. E
 
 26 LIBER FAMELICU8. 
 
 frendes on either side, Avas this moneth of October 1611 delivered of 
 a male childe by him, whiche was christened William, at Flamberds, 
 the house of sir John Browne that maryed her mother. This 
 matche, besides the blame it hathe for being made without the 
 consent of parents, had this misfortune, that the man is on of the 
 most dissolute, unjust, and vitious reprobates that livethe upon the 
 face of the earthe. 
 
 I did lend unto my ancient frond MR. DOCTER BuCKRiDGE, against 
 his consecration to the bishoprik of Rochester, whiche was in June 
 1611, 400/., upon his own bond. He kept in cotnmendam withe 
 it the parsonage of South Fleet in Kent, the vicarage of St. Giles in 
 London, and his place at Windsor. This 1 set downe to shew my 
 love unto him, and how far from covetousnes he had lived. My 
 good and ancient acquayntance doctor Thomson, dean of Windsor, 
 was consecrated bishop of Gloucester at the same time, and doctor 
 King, bishop of London from the deanrye of Christchurche in Oxon, 
 in September following. 
 
 Upon Sunday the 17 of .May 1612, 10 Jacobi, MY SUN James 
 was born in my house in Fleet Street, between the howers of three 
 and fowcr in the morning. He was christened in St. Dunstan's 
 churclie, upon ]\Iunday the 25 day of May. Godfathers wear sir 
 William Bulstrode, and mr. Ilumfrey ^Lay, that shold have been 
 for Dorothye; godihother, the old lady Dorothy Wrighte, widow of 
 sir Robert Wri<rhte of Richemond, clerk of the king's stable. I 
 invited her and mr. May bycaus they had bespoken sutche an office, 
 and it was intended to them at the christning of my last childe, 
 but bycaus she dyed so soon they could not then perform it ; vide p. 
 20. Mr. Humfrey May at this time had given over his place of 
 groome of the privie chamber unto his brother Hughe May, 
 and had gotten of the king a new office, to be agent for the kingdom 
 of Ireland, as it wear secretarye, or referendarye, for all businesses to 
 be had in hand by the king for the state of Ireland. 
 
 Sir William Bulstrode was sun and heir of Rich. Bulstrode, 
 brother of George father of Thomas, father of Edward, father of my
 
 LIBEK FAMKLICUS. 27 
 
 wife. He maryod the widow of Clmiles Brook of the west coimtrye, 
 that was of the lord Cobham's house, and had a good part of the 
 possessions of tliat house after the attaynder of the lord Cobham and 
 his brother. She was before the widow of on Gunston, an Essex 
 gentleman. She was by family a Baskerville, and sister to justice 
 Owen's wife, that was mother of Sir Roger Owen. 
 
 Upon Tuesday the 7 day of July 1612, the graunt of sir John 
 Roper's office unto Robert Hcathe of the inner house and myself 
 passed the great seal. The conditions on whiche it was granted to 
 us appeer in the endentures of covenant. Mr. Heathe, thoughe 
 puisne, was named first, bycaus he was in the former patent. 
 
 Memorandum, that the mother of sir Frauncis Knowles, that was 
 tresorer of the house to queen Elizabeth, and of her privie counsell, 
 was daughter to Richard Bulstrode, ancetor to my wife, and this I 
 set downe by the relation of olde mrs. Skydmore of Chilton, now 
 living, in September 1612, who was daughter to George Bulstrode 
 by on of the daughters of sergeant Pigot. George was sun to 
 Edward Bulstrode, Edward sun to Richard, Richard to William, 
 who wear thus matched. William Bulstrode maryed the daughter 
 of William Norris of Bray, of whome is descended sir John Korris 
 of Lawrence Waltham now living, and the lord Xorris his line, as I 
 am informed. The coat of Bulstrode is advanced in the lord Xorris 
 his house. See the inscription in the chappell of Hedgelye for this 
 matche. 
 
 Richard Bulstkodk, sun of William, was servant to Margaret 
 wife of Henry VI., and after was controller of prince Edward's 
 house, sun to Edward IV., as appeerethe by bills signed by him 
 under that name, now in my brother Bulstrode's hand. I conceive 
 that he, being a man plausible, could well tell how to change his 
 service from queen Margaret to prince Edward, and therlbre I 
 gesse he chose the poesye now standing in the windowes at lledgcly, 
 " Do t») please " and " Fac placcre.'' See the prince's armes in the 
 window. 
 
 Richard maryed the daughter and heir of on Knif of Buckingham-
 
 28 i.inr.u r \Mr.M( r>. 
 
 shiiv, l»y wlionie he lia<l tlio t'nhcritanco also of Wyot, Clopton, 
 Thorn, l)cing lanclos of good value about Ilorton, Colbrook, Langly, 
 and other towncs thcarabouts in Bukinghamsliirc. Edward, sun of 
 Kichard, was cpquier of the body to Henry VII., as appeerethe by a 
 tomb stone at Uj)ton churclic in Buckinghamshire ncer unto 
 Windsor, whcar lie was bury od. He marycd tlie daughter of sir 
 Kichard Empson wlio was a counselor at the law of the Middle 
 Temple, London, and was of the privie counsell to Henry YII., and 
 was attainted by Henry X'lII. for his profitable counsell to his father, 
 and I wishe sutche counselors may never misse of sutche rcwardes. 
 
 George, sun of Edward, maryed on of the daughters of Pigot of 
 Doddersale in Buckinghamshire, sergeant at law; on other of the 
 sisters was maryed to Catesby, father of sir William Catesbye long 
 since deceased, out of whichc house is cum sir Lewes Tresham of 
 llushton, the olde lady Yelverton, lately ded, wife to justice Yel- 
 verton, the lady Pellhara of Ethrop that Avas Dormer's widow; an 
 other of the sisters was maryed to Ferrars of Tamcworthe, of Avhome 
 descendcthc sir John Ferrars; an other maryed Wallop, of whome 
 is descended sir Henrye Wallop of Hampshire. George had two 
 other wifes, but I cannot lern any children he had by them. 
 
 Cecill Bulstrode, that was a mayd of honor to Katherin first 
 wife of Henry VI 1 1., was sister to this George. She was maryed 
 to sir Alexander Unton, by whome she had sir Edward, father 
 of sir Henrye, and Elizabeth wife oi" olde sir John Croke, father 
 of justice Croke. After the deathe of sir Alexander Unton she 
 maryed Robert Keylway surveyor of the wardes. By him she had 
 the lord Harrington's wife. 
 
 Thomas Bulstrode, sun of George, maryed a Barker. Of her blud 
 ar sir Anthony Barker of Sunning in Barkshire. and sir Henry 
 Barker of Wood Eton in Oxfordshire. 
 
 Edward, sun of Thomas, maryed the daughter of sir John Croke 
 of Chilton. 
 
 Henrye, sun ot IMward, maryed the daughter of Thomas Read of 
 Barton neer Abingdon in Barkshire. Scriptum, 3 Septonb. 1612.
 
 LIBEK FAMKMCUS. 29 
 
 Upon the 20 of August 1012, being Thursday, I and my wife went 
 to Parlant Park, to my brother Bulstrude, and tlic next day, 
 togcather withe him and his wife, we went into Essex, to visit my 
 mother in law, whomc we [did] accordingly visit at Flamberds in 
 Essex, at the house of sir John Browne her iiusband, and <lid also 
 visit sir John Tirrell of Heron in Essex and Elizabetli his wife, 
 sister to my wife's motlicr, and rctorned home to Parlant Park ultimo 
 Au(j., and so home tlie next day to Cluar. 
 
 Upon the third day of October 1G12, 1 was, by patent under the 
 common seal of the dean and amons of Windsor, made thear feed 
 counselor, withe 40s. the year for my life, as by the patent Ixjaring 
 date the same day doth appeer. Upon Munday, the 3 of October, it 
 was sent me by the dean, docter Maxye, who succedcd into that 
 place upon the deathe of docter Giles Tomson, bishop of Glocester, 
 who dyed about a week or two before he purposed to remove to 
 Glocester. 
 
 The dean shewed this kindenesse unto me, upon the good he con- 
 ceaved of me by the report of my good frendes sir Henrye Savill and 
 mr. Xawnton, as he tolde me, for I was a meer stranger unto him, 
 nether did ever see him untill I herd him preachc thear after he 
 was dean. 
 
 This term of St. Michael, 1»»12, I lent mv lord IIakington 
 3,000/. to redeem his manor of Lobthorp, whiche was fallen into the 
 viscount of Rochester's * hand, for the not payment of 3,000/. 
 whiche sholde have been payd unto him on AUhallond day 1G12, 
 yet the viscount Avas contented to receave his money after the day, 
 and convey the land to me, whiche wasdoon by Thomas Bennet and 
 Walter James, to whomc the land was conveyed in trust for him. I 
 did this curtesye for my lord withe out on halfepenye worthe of 
 rewarde, bycaus his sun dealt so kindely and nobly withe me in 
 taking sir John Roper's oflicc in my name unsought for. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Read, of Barton necr Abingdtju, knt me towanl the 
 making of this payment a 1 ,000/., for six moncthes, gratis, upon my 
 
 • Tlie favourite Carr, creatod viscount Rochester 25 March, IGll.
 
 30 MBKU lAMKMf r>. 
 
 bond and my brother Bowstred's, and in recompcncc of tliis klnd- 
 nesso I gave back all fees unto him. I send (sic) two of my owne 
 men and three of my lord Harrington's for it, and had it broughte 
 up, upon a spare horse, 2 December 1012. 
 
 ^ly brother Bowstred maryed this gentleman's sister. 
 
 Upon Friday the 22 January 1612, being the day before the 
 term, my noble and worthye frend SIR David Williams knighte, 
 on of the justices of the King's Bcnche, dyed of a fever at Kingston 
 Bagpuis in the countye of Barks, his wife's joynture by her former 
 husband mr. Latten. He was made judge the last day of Hillaryc 
 term 1603, and presently he toke me into his favour, and caryed me 
 the circuit withe him, in whiche, by his favour, I fell into practise, 
 and the like favour he did me in tlie King's Benehe. He was a most 
 true and faythfuU trend, and that he shewed himself to me in the 
 businesse between sir William Pope and myself. He dyed a man 
 of great living and personall wealthe. I herd from him that he 
 sholde not have been 63 year olde until 1 Martii 1612, and that he 
 was of the same house as the lord Williams of Tame, and sir Richard 
 Williams alias Cromwell, grandfather of sir Oliver Cromwell now 
 living, and that his father and they wear neer kinsemen. His 
 principal 1 seat is Gwernenethe in Brecknockshire, and he was 
 buryed at Brecknock, by his first wife.* 
 
 In Michaelmas term before, dyed sir Christopher Yelverton, an 
 other judge of the King's Benehe and a verye olde manf. 
 
 Memorandum, that the 29 day of June 1613, in the 11 year of 
 the raigne of the king's maiesty, sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney in 
 the countye of Hereford knighte, did grant unto me for my life, jyro 
 concilio itnpenso el impeiulendo, an annuity of 10/. per annum. He 
 maryed the daughter of sir Thomas Lucyc of Charlcot in comit. 
 Warwick. Ewstace Whitney was his father, and his sister was the 
 wife of sir Henrye Williams, sun and heir of justice Williams. He 
 
 • Valuiible particulars respecting sir David Williamit may be read in Mr. Fosa's pleasant 
 sketch of his career in the Lives of the Judges, vol. vi. p. 197. 
 t See Fosa's Lives of the Judges, ti. 2o3,
 
 LI1U:U TAMKLICUS. 31 
 
 is on of the ancientcst gentlemen in that countye. See the deed 
 undcT liis liand nnci seal. 
 
 Jolin Hethrington, a Cumberland man, came to me in Ester term 
 ir)13, to scarvc in the place of John GrilUn, in my stable, who went 
 from me bvcaus he was maryed, having served me /ix yeares, and &» 
 mutche as from Mich. 1606. But before Mich, following I rcceaved 
 again .John (.Jriflin, and put I'rom me the other. 
 
 In August 1613, at Wormes in Germanye, dyed my honorable 
 frend JoiiN loud IIakingtox, in his retorn from Heildelberge, 
 whether he went in commission withe other noblemen, for the con- 
 ducting of the ladye Elizabethe home. He was the sun and heir of 
 sir James Ilarinjiton, and descended from the heires males of the 
 lord Ilarington's house, whose heir generall maryed to Gray marques 
 Dorset. He was created a baron by king James. He left only on 
 son, sir John Harington, knighte of the bathe, before spoken of. 
 His frendship grew by the consanguinitye between his wife and 
 mine, for the olde la<iyc Harington was the sole daughter and heir 
 of Robert Keylway esquier, surveyor of the Court of Wards, and of 
 Cecilie his wife, daughter of Edward Bulstrodeof Hedgely Bulstrode 
 and widow of sir Alexander Unton of Barkshire, and mother to 
 Elizabeth wife of olde sir John Croke, my wife's grandfather. This 
 nobleman was 73 year olde. 
 
 The end of Ester term 1613, dyed my verye good and kinde 
 frend mr. Thomas Stephens, bencher of the Middle Temple, the late 
 prince Henrye and prince Charles his attorney, and into that place 
 came my verye good frend nir. John Walter, of the Inner Temple, 
 a reader of great reputation. 
 
 The lord Harington sent mc blackes for myself and on man, 6 
 October 1613; the buryall of his father was at Exton, 7 October 
 1613. 
 
 For my being committed to the Fleet, upon Tuesday the 
 eighteenth day of May, (omo 1613, the eleventh year of the king's 
 rai'Mie. beinii the morrow after Ester term, vide clswhcar, for it is 
 not a thing unworthye ol" n'lncndjninco, iu/ru p. 32.
 
 32 i.ir.i.K rA>ri:Licu8. 
 
 At ChristniMs Kil.'), I came to ilwi'U in the house at Fleet Street 
 wlu-ar lur. Walter dwelt, and upon his rcniDving to mr. Stephens 
 liis htui.^e 1 canio tlicthcr: my niotlier in law and I dwelled in it the 
 winter after I was niaryed, and divers yeares after. 
 
 Presents sent mc this Christmas, 1G13. 
 
 Mr. Staverton, a doe. 
 
 Sir Edw. Zouche, a doe. 
 
 Thomas Whitclocke, half of a iloc. 
 
 Sir Henry Nevill of Pillingbear, a side of a doe. 
 
 Sir Frauncis Lcighe, a side of a doe. 
 
 Richard Whitelocke, a keg of sturgeon. 
 
 Thomas Whitelocke, two rollers of brawne. 
 
 My mother in law, a goose pyc, two rollers of brawn, a cople of rabbets, 
 eighteen puddings. 
 
 William Whitelocke, a fat turkye. 
 
 Mr. Jones of Cluar, a chync of pork, a goose, six puddings. 
 
 Mr. Richard Gwin, a red deer ]>ye. 
 
 My cosen Holland, a fat swan. 
 
 Rich. Martin of Bray, a cople of capons. 
 
 Sir William Jordan, a sugar lofe. 
 
 John Whitelocke, a peece of sugar. 
 
 My mother in law againe, a roler of brawne, two capons, a turkey pye. 
 
 My ladye Tirrcll, a pecce of bacon. 
 
 This I set downc inter fameUca that my sun may heeraftcr see these frendly 
 kindnesses doon to rae, which ar not so usual to those that ly in London as to 
 those in the countrye, and that he may endeavour to live worthye of the like. 
 
 This Christmas, at sir Hcnrye Nevill's at ^Ye.-tm^nster, I rcncsved 
 my acquayntancc withe the worthye gentleman sir Raphe Winwood, 
 embassador legier for the Low Countryes. He put mc in mynde that 
 he, being proctor of Oxford, presented me bachelor of the civill 
 law. He was at that time fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxon. 
 
 I was informed by sir Humfrcy ^lay that the king had taken 
 (•Hence at my actions in parliament, in maynteyning the cause of 
 impositions so stifly, and that I had doon good no way by it, but 
 had hurt myself very mutchc, and discovered a presage in himself
 
 LI HER FAMELICU8. Mi 
 
 of that sum ill niiglitc bcfallc mo in tliat respect; this he did con- 
 tinually incuk-atc unto mc after the parliament ended, untill ill 
 happened in deed. 
 
 In Ester term, 11 Jacobi, IGl.'J, thecawsc between the colledge of 
 Westminster and the bishop of London was thrice herd in the 
 Chanceryc. Thear wear of counsell for the bishop, plaintif, mr. 
 Frauncis More, mr. Walter, mr. Philip Gerard, mr. Thomas Crew, 
 mr. Thomas Chamberleyn and Iluinfrey Price; lor the colledge of 
 AN estminster wear Ilobart the king's attorney, Bacon soUicitor, 
 Randall Crew, Lewes Prowd, and myself^ Thear wear assistants at 
 the hecring, besides the maister of the rolles, baron Altham and 
 justiee Crokc. The churche of \\'estminster had had two verdicts 
 in the Common Pleas, upon full view of the tenements by the jurye 
 in on of them, and in an other had thear judgement affirmed on a 
 writ of error. This notwithstanding, the chancelor had appoyuted 
 that thear sholde be a third tryall at the King's Benchc bar, whiche 
 being ready to be taken in Michaelmas term 1612, the chancelor 
 sent an injunction to stay it, and directc<l the bishop to put in his 
 bill, whiehc i)eing put m Michaelmas term 1G12, the caw.<e came to 
 heering in Kster term following, the bookes being 600 sheetes. 
 Thi.s was Sure against the will of the dean and chapter, for they had 
 no other time to exaiuin by commission, or in court, and to 
 l)ublishe and abbreviate, but only between Hillary term 1612 and 
 Ester term 161.'?. yet by my c.xtraordinaryc paynes wear ready at the 
 heering. 
 
 The chancelor * toke oftcnce at me in this cawsc, and shewed it 
 by verye taunting and bitter chckkes, without any expectation of 
 sutche entertcynment or desert, as I thoughte. But 1 wa.-* tolde it 
 grew by my standing <o mutcheupon the trialls of law in the o[)en- 
 ing of the answear, and by the jcalowsye he had of my backing and 
 hartening the dean to stand to the eaw.>=e, whiche he desired to have 
 been rel'errod to arbitrement, and the dean refused bycaus he had 
 recovered it by law. 
 
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 34 LIBEH FAMELICUS. 
 
 In this cawsc the injunction was granted againat tlie dean and 
 chapter before the bill was pnt in against thcni. 
 
 After the cawse thrice herd, the chancelor toke time to consider 
 of it, and so it stayed quiet on bothe partes a long time. 
 
 The occasion taken of my commitment to the Fleet was in this 
 manner. 
 
 Thear was a bill preferred in Chancerye by Raphe Brooke, 
 York hcralde of amies, againste Henry St. George, Blewmantle 
 pursuy^ant at armes, in wliiche he complayned that the defendant 
 had gathered and taken up divers sums of money amounting to 
 400Z., of divers noblemen, knightes, and others, for fees due to the 
 heralds in generall, for instalments, funeralls, creations, titles, and 
 the like, and that he kept them to his owne use, and denyed to give 
 any accoumpt of them, or to show Avhat the sums wear, and bycaus 
 lie had no meanes at the common law to finde out what the sums 
 wear, therforc desired relief in chancerye. The defendant in his 
 answear did first demur to the jurisdiction of the court, alledging 
 that bycaus the parties wear officers at amies, therfore the chancerye 
 could not holde plea between them, and that the suit ought to be 
 before the commissioners for office of crl marshall, yet having thus 
 demurred, went on in answere to the matter in fact, by whiche, by 
 the course of the court, he did relinquishe his demurrer. 
 
 Frauncis More the counselor, simirro fmnelicus, made a private 
 motion at a seal in the chancclor's house, 3 Martii, 10 Jacobi, when all 
 men of his profession wear abroad in thear circuits, upon whiche an 
 order was made, that the plaintif sholde shew cawse the next term 
 whearfore the plaintif's bill sholde not be dismissed, and the cawse 
 referred to be herd by the commissioners of the marshall's office. 
 
 This order being broughte to me in Ester term, by the plaintif, 
 I came into the chancerye to maynteyn the jurisdiction of that court 
 against the erls marshal, and by a motion made before the master of 
 the roUes, upon Wednesday 28 April, 11 Jacobi, for cawse to 
 reteync the plea in court, shewed matter upon whiche this order was 
 entered.
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. 35 
 
 Whear, by an order of the tliiril of Martclie last, the idaintif was to shew 
 cawse tlie first day of this tcrui, whearfore the defendant's demurrer shold not 
 stand, and the cawse bo hence dismissed to be decreed before the lords com- 
 missioners for the office of erl marshall of England, as a matter most proper to 
 be decreed in that court, foeasmutcub as this court was this day informed by 
 mr. Whitelocke, being of the plaintifscounsell, that, albeit the defendant in the 
 beginning did demur, whiche was insuflicient, for that ther nether now is, nor 
 never was, any sutcho court as the erl marshall's court, but the court of the 
 constable and marsiiall, whiche coulde only be helde at sutcbe time as ther was 
 a constable, or commissioners for that office of constable, nether can the plaintif 
 make his proofe by othc before the now lords commissioners for the office of erl 
 marshall, yet the defendant hathe answeared over, thoughe in sum poyntes 
 insufliciently, by whiche he hath wayved his demurrer : It is tuerfoee 
 ORDERED that the sayd dismission be stayed, and that if the defendant shall not 
 shew unto the lord chancelor good cawse to the contrarye, then the defendant 
 shall make a perfect and direct answear to the plaintifs bill. 
 
 This order being entered, the defendant by the meanes of Richard 
 St.George his father, a heralde of armes called Norroy, a man 
 ignorant in his vocation, but exceedinglye hautye, and yet verye 
 weakc in estate, did acquaynt the erls of Northampton and Suffolk, 
 being principall in commission for the office, withe the order of 
 chancerye, incensed them mutche against mr. Whitelock, as an 
 undcrmincr of their authority, and withstander of the king's power, 
 and cawsed them to make a great complaynt of him to the chancelor, 
 who apprehended it soon enoughe, and all concurred in on to take 
 this occation, in dcfldt of a better, to give him an item for olde 
 desertes. 
 
 Mr. Frauncis More of the Middle Temple, thiea foreims, was 
 appoyntcd to move upon the order 28 Apr. 1 1 Jacobi, to reverse 
 it. This purpose was privcly tolde to mr. Whitelock, who, under- 
 standing thcrof, prepared himself to be at the bar to mayntein 
 the cawses he alleged for the upholding the jurisdiction of the 
 chancerye, whiclic he doubted not but shold be indifferently herd. 
 At the motion, whiche was upon the last day of Ester term, mr. 
 More, the counsel for the defendant, cawsed the order to be red, 
 but never offered to spcake a word for the confuting of that con-
 
 30 LIIJEU lAMKLlCUS. 
 
 tcyneil in it, nether well knew wluit it mciit. So soon as it was 
 roil the chancclor called for it, red it over to himpelf, then shewed 
 it to the master of the relics, made greatc shcwes of wonder at it, 
 as if he had never seen it before, whearas he had before been fully 
 ao(|uayntcd withe it and had resolved what to do in it. Then he 
 bean to taunt and speake bitterly against mr. Whitelockc, who, 
 bein«' at the bar, desired his lordship he mighte be herd, whiehc 
 beinf^ f^raiited, he began to inform him what growndcs he had for 
 his opinion, as acts of parliament, presidents of record, use and 
 practise, and wolde have entered into the defence of it in poynt of 
 law, havinf' studycd the case and being provided for it. But what- 
 soever he alledged the chancclor put it of withe skorn, and tolde 
 him, " Mr. Whitelockc, these be things you may know, that ar 
 omnisclous, and know all things; for my part 1 nether know them 
 nor understand them, nether can judge of them, but 1 will certify 
 the king of it, and he shall be judge in it. It is to great a question for 
 me to judge of." Then he began openly and sharply to invey against 
 those lawyers that studycd prerogative, and by name condemned mr. 
 Whitelockc for on of them, and taxed him in this case that he had 
 denyed the king's power to give authority to the commissioners to 
 keep a court. 
 
 T^Ir. Whitelockc desired his lordship not to take it so, for it 
 appecred by the words of the order that he made not the question 
 whether the king would give them power to keep a court, but 
 whether he had by that commission given them power, for it 
 was expressed in the order that sutchc a commission mighte be by 
 whiche the court mighte be hclde, as namely, by a commission as 
 well of constablcship as of mai-shallship, and therforc the validity of 
 that commission as it was granted was only in question, and not the 
 king's power in granting of it. But, nether this nor nothing else 
 wold serve the chancclor, or stop his mouthe from invcying against 
 those lawyers that studycd prerogative, and concluded he wolde 
 appeal to the king in this particular, and wold acquaynt him with 
 this great aflVont made to his regall power. Mr. Whitelockc, when
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. 37 
 
 he saw nothing he spake woldc satisfye the cliancelor, resolved to 
 prepare luinsclf withe reason to maynteyn liis opinion, and to 
 manifest tlie mistaking therof, before the king himself. This was 
 tlie last day of Ester term 1 1 Jacobi, being the 17 day of May. The 
 next day the lords and judges sate in the Starchambor. After 
 dinner, the ehancelor, the privie seal, and the lord ehamberleync 
 Avcnt to the king, being at Whitehall, and caryed withe them the 
 ehancery order of the 28 of April, red [it] unto him, and informed 
 him that his regal power and princelyke prerogative, a poynt not 
 lit for any subiect to meddle withall, was mutche impeached by it. 
 
 An item was given of the person, and what ill office he had doon 
 in parliament against the king's power to impose without assent of 
 parliament, and that it was not unlikely to falle out that he was the 
 man that made the exceptions to the commission for the navye, 
 whichc exceptions wear cum to the king's hand, and gave him f^reat 
 offence. The king upon this information began to be verye mutche 
 incensed against Mr. Whitelock, and shewed it by bitter speeches 
 against him, and tlie time made him the more apt to apprehend 
 occation of anger, lor that at dinner before, a libellous book was 
 presented unto him, in whiehe he was mutche vililyed by the 
 adversarycs of our religion for the smale power and grace he had 
 withe his people in parliament, and mutche skorn put upon him 
 for his impotency thearin, and especially in that he was so sternly 
 denyed releef toward the payment of his debts. Mutche other 
 skaudalous and unworthyc matter was in it whiche moved his 
 maiestyc very mutche; so at the last, breaking out into a denun- 
 tiation of punishement against this villanye, " I wolde wishe," 
 say the he, " that the author of this libell had no other punishement 
 then the lower house of parliament wolde inllict upon him fur 
 this offence." 
 
 It happened sumwhat unfortunately that, cumming hot from this 
 passion, he sholde be complayned unto of an opposition made 
 against his prerogative (a thing his maiestyc did more impatiently
 
 38 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 l\cci' of tlicn any oH'encc towelling himself) and by on that had been 
 traduced unto him to have been most diligent in examining his 
 prerogatives in the parliament house. The king willed the lords to 
 send for mr. Whitlock before them to the counsell table, and to 
 make him give an accoumpt of his fault, and to do sumewhat 
 more, as it will appeer by that whiche followethe. These three lords, 
 verye ready to execute his lordship's [majesty's?] command, went 
 into the counsell chamber, whear, withe sum few others, they sat 
 most part of the afternoon about other businesses, whiche being in 
 hand, they sent a pursuyvant to mr. Whitelock's chamber in the 
 ]\Iiddle Temple, who broughtc unto him a note under mr. Edmund's 
 hand, the clerk of the counsell, to this effect, " j\Ir. Whitelock, it is 
 the lords of the counscU's pleasure, you attend them presentlye at the 
 counsell chamber at Whitehalle," and to the note his name was sub- 
 scribed. This note mr. Whitelock receaved between two and tliree 
 of the clok in the afternoon, being in his study e; it was upon 
 Tuesday 18 Maij, 1613, the morow after Ester term. So soone as he 
 receaved it, he straightwayes conceaved what the businesse was, and 
 therfore presently made him ready, and went withe the pursuyvant 
 by water to Whitehalle, none of his owne people knowing of it, or 
 what was becum of him, for his wife and family went that day into 
 the countrye, and his men wear absent upon that occation, and had 
 left him alone in his chamber. 
 
 When he came to the counsell chamber, the lord chancelor began 
 to enter into speache of the businesse, toke the copie of the order of 
 28 April out of his bosom, and declared what had passed between 
 them and the king about it. Other passages that then hapned in 
 the counsell chamber ar set downe in a larger discourse of it ; the end 
 that day was, he was committed from the counsell table to the 
 Fleet, by a warrant expressely and verbatim set downe in the other 
 discourse. 
 
 The warrant bearethe date 18 Maij, 1613, for his imprisonment; 
 was called to his answear on Saturdav, 12 -Tunij, 1613, and wns djs-
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. 'VJ 
 
 charged the next day ; and for all the speciall manner of the pro- 
 ceeding, see the discourse made of it in particulcr; and, all this 
 notwithstanding, I will .still rctcyne my old motto, Nee hcneficio, nee 
 metu. 
 
 Upon Saturday nightc, 26 February, 1G13, dyed ut ivew in the 
 countyc of Surrey, that worthye yong nol)lcman JoilN LOUD Ha- 
 RiNGTON of Exton, being not full 22 yeares of age. He was the 
 most compleat yong gentleman of his age that this kingdom coulde 
 afford for religion, learning, and curtcous behaviour. So thear dyed 
 within the year four of the name, John lord Harington the father, 
 sir lienrye, and sir James, two of the lather's bretheren. This 
 nobleman dyed a batchclor, but if he had not dyed he sholde have 
 been marycd to on of the daughters of Henrye crl of Northumber- 
 land. He dyed of the smale pox, whiche disease he had once 
 before. His heirs at the common law wear Lucye countesse of 
 Bedford, and [Frances] wife of sir Robert Chichester, knighte. I 
 had blackes for his funerall. 
 
 The day of Aprill, 1614, Sir Raphe WynAvood, before spoken 
 of, was sworn principall secreatarye, and on of the priviecounscll, at 
 Whitehall. 
 
 More of my commitment. 
 
 The deathe of my il affected frond the erl of Xorthampton, who 
 dyed npon Wednesday the 15 Junij, 1614, makes me bolder to 
 commit to writing sum passages of my treble, whiche I have com- 
 piled in a book by itself, and peradvcnture will in fit time insert 
 into this volume, as they do fail who I know will be readye to take 
 advantages against me. 
 
 The copie of tlie warrant of commitment. 
 
 Whjeabas we fiude cawse to commit the person of James Wliitelockc, Tu£ss 
 shall be to will and command you to receave the person of the sayd James 
 Whitclockc into your charge and safe keeping in that prison of the Fleet ; thear
 
 10 LIBER FAMELICU8. 
 
 to reinayno iiiulev your custudyo, iintill I'arllicr order be taken. At the eourt 
 at Whitehallc, this 18 of May, 1G1;3. 
 
 G. Cant: T. Ellsmeer, Cane: II. Nortuampton. T. Suffolk. 
 
 W. Knollts. Jul. C;esar. 
 To the warden of the Fleet. Edmunds. 
 
 Xote. — Thcnr was no cawso expressed why I was committed. 
 
 The copic of my discbarge. 
 Whearas James AVhitelooke, counselor at law, was hecrtofore committed to 
 your charge in that prison of the Fleet; Forasmutche as his majestye is gra- 
 tiously pleased, upon the humble acknowledgement whiche he hathe made in 
 writing of his offence, to give order for his enlargement, These shall be, 
 therfore, to require yow to enlarge and set at libertye the person of the said 
 James Whitelocke ; For which this shall be to yow sufficient warrant. At 
 the court at Greenwiche this 13 of June, 1613. 
 
 G. Cant: T. Eli.smeer. Canc: II. Northampton. T.Suffolk. 
 Pembroke. Fenton. W. Knollys. E. Wotton. 
 
 Jul. C/esar. 
 To the warden of the Fleet, or his deputye. 
 
 The lords sent for sir Robert Mausel and me to Greenwiche, the 
 sayd 13 of June, being Sunday, and delivered the king's grace to- 
 ward us, and his satisfaction he toke of our submission, and so dis- 
 charged us. The lord chancelor tolde me that that king toke spe- 
 cial notice and good liking of the sentence out of Tacitus withe 
 whiche I concluded my submission, that was, Tihi summum reriuii 
 imperium Dii dederunt, nobis ohedienticB gloria rclicta est. My sub- 
 mission is elsewhear related, withe note whiche was my owne, 
 and whiche was sir Frauncis Bacon's addition. 
 
 The Parliament began at Westminster the o of April, 12 
 Jacobi, into whiche I was retorned a burgesse for the towne of 
 AVoodstock, in the countie of Oxon, whear I was recorder, and was 
 elected notwithstanding the towne wear hardly pressed for an other 
 by the erl of Mountgomerye, steward of the manors and keeper of 
 the house and parke thear.
 
 LIB Ell FAMKLICUS. 41 
 
 Tlicar was rctornccl withe inu sir Pliilip Caryc, yonger sun to 
 sir Edward Carye, master of the Jewells. lie was nominated in the 
 place by sir Thomas Spcnc-er, who, being steward of the towno, re- 
 fused to serve himself, but commended that gentleman. 
 
 I was retorncd burges also for the burrow of Corf Castle, in the 
 He of Purbcck, in the countye of Dorset, and that was by the nomi- 
 nation of the honorable ladye, the ladye Elizabethe Cook, wife to 
 the lord checf justice of England, and daughter to the crl of Exeter, 
 my vcrye honorable ladye. She returned me and mr. John Dac- 
 comb, master of the requestes, without my privity, for I was absent 
 in the circuit wlien she sent my name, and when 1 came to her to 
 take notice oi' it, and to thank her, she tolde me she did it least an 
 lionest man sholde be left out. I gave her thankes for it, and yeilded 
 up the place to her againc, and in it was chosen sir Thomas Tracyo. 
 
 My worthy frend sir Robert Ivylligrew gave me a place for Ilel- 
 ston, in the countye of Cornwall, and I cawsed my brother-in-law 
 Ilenrye Bowstred to be retorned for that place. 
 
 On Tuesday the 7 of June, 1614, the parliament was dissolved, 
 in that manner that all good people wear verye sorye for it; f think 
 it not lit to play the part of a historiographer about it, but 1 pray 
 (jJod we never sec the like. 
 
 On Wednesday Ibllowing, in the morning, myself, mr. Thomas 
 Crew, and others, that wear assigned by the House of Commons 
 to be agents in the conference desired by the Commons withe the 
 Lords, concerning Impositions, wear called to the counsell table to 
 Whitehalle, whear having everye on delivered what part he was as- 
 signed unto, we wear all commanded to burn oiu" notes, arguments, 
 and collections we had made for the preparing of ourselves to the con- 
 ference. 1 broughte myne to the clerk of the counsell, mr. Cotting- 
 ton, the same afternoonc, being 24 sides in (olio, written withe my 
 owne hand, and saw them burnt. 
 
 The partes wear thus assigned; — 
 
 Sir Henryc Muuntague, recorder of London and the king's ser- 
 geant, was appoynted to show the cawse whye we desired this con- 
 
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 42 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 I'ercncc. This shokl liavc been by itself Urst, and the conference at 
 another time after. 
 
 Sir Frauncis Bacon, attorney gencrall, at the conference was to 
 liave made the introduction to the businesse, and to set the state of 
 the question. 
 
 Sir Edwyn Sandes was to shew that the king's imposing without 
 assent of parliament was contraryc to the naturall fram and consti- 
 tution of the policye of our kingdom, as that it was a righte of ma- 
 jestyc and soveraigne power whiche the kings of England could not 
 exercise but in parliament, as that of law making, naturalising, ulti- 
 ma provocatio, and the like. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Crew was to shew the reason and judgement of the 
 common law of the land, that whiche is jus privatum or contentiosum 
 to be the same. 
 
 I was appo3mted to begin to shew the practise of the state in the 
 verye poynt, as being the best evidence to shew whether it wear a 
 soveralgnty belonging to the king in parliament or out of parliament, 
 and to me was assigned the raignes of Edward I., Edward II., and 
 Edward III., the heat of all the busenesse. 
 
 The time from 50 Edward III. to 3 et 4 Ph. et Marian, during 
 whiche time thear was not an imposition set on but by assent of par- 
 liament, was assigned to Thomas Wentworthc of Lincolnes In, and 
 to John Hoi?kins of the Middle Temple. 
 
 The time from 3 et 4 Ph. et ]\I. to this present was assigned to 
 Nicholas Hyde of the ]\Iiddle Temple. 
 
 Thear wear appoynted to answere objections mr. Jones, mr. 
 Chibborn, and mr. Hack well of Lincolnes In. 
 
 Sir Roger Owen was appoynted to shew that no foreyne state 
 could or did set on as the kinc: of England did. 
 
 Sir Dudley Diggs was appoynted to open the matter of incon- 
 venience to the common profit of the kingdom. 
 
 Sir Samuell Sandes was to conclude the businesse. 
 
 The same 8 of June, after we had been withe the lords, thear wear 
 sent to the Tower four parliament men; sir Walter Cluite, mr.
 
 LIBER FAMELICU8. 43 
 
 Christopher Ncvill, yonger sun to tlie lord Abergavcnye, mr. 
 Wentwortho, and nir. lloskins. 
 
 All the while the lords sate, the king was in the clerk oi'counseirs 
 chamber. I saw him look throughe an open place in the hangins, 
 about the bignes of the palm of ons hand, till tlic while the lords wear 
 in withe us. 
 
 We wear all sent out of the chamber, and then mr. Wentworthe 
 and mr. Hoskins Avear sent for back againe into the chamber, and 
 after sum spceche unto them by the lords, they wear sent to the 
 Tower. Sir John Savill knighte for Yorkshire, and sir Edwyn 
 Sandys, wear called before the lords and dismissed upon bondes, so 
 was sir Edward Gyles, of Devonshire, and divers others, as sir Roger 
 Owen. Thear wear divers put out of the commission of the peace, 
 as sir John Savill, sir Roger Owen, sir Edward Philips, mr. Nicolas 
 Hyde, and others. Thear was committed to the Tower, shortly 
 after the parliament, sir Charles Cornwallys, and doctor Shai'p, arch- 
 deacon of Barkes, for conference layd to ther charge withe mr. Hos- 
 kins, about parliament matters. These things I wold not meddle 
 witheall, but that tliey hapned whear I was an agent. 
 
 In September 1614, sir Edward Philipps, master of the rolles, 
 dyed of an ague; he fell sik at Wansted, in Essex, and came from 
 thence to the rolles, and thear dyed. He was my verye good frend. 
 It is thoughtc that greef he toke in the king's displeasure toward 
 him, for his sun's roughenesse in the parliament, hastned his deathe. 
 But I cannot think a man can be sutche a mope. 
 
 This summer I went progrcs withe sir Henry Savil, provost of 
 luiton, and warden of Merton colledgc, for bothe howses, into the 
 countyes of Surrye, Kent, Essex, vSullolk, XorthlJtlk, Cambridge, 
 Bedford, and Ilertlbrd. 
 
 I saw Dover (Jastle in Kent, the citye of Canterburye and the 
 decent churche thear, tlic lowne of Ipswiehe in Suffolk, and came 
 to Cambridge on Thursday in the afternoon, and stayed thear untill 
 it was Munday morning. 
 
 We wear cnterteyned by the bishop of Ely, docter Andrewcs, at
 
 44 LIRETl FAMELTCUS. 
 
 Jesus colledgc, by dr. Xcvill at Trinitjc coUcdgc, by docter Sinithc 
 lit King's colledgc, in the liallc, and by tlie procter thear. We met 
 thear sir Fulk Grevill,* withe whome avc had mutchc companye. 
 Thear we met the dean of Westminster, docter ]\Iountayne,t mr. 
 Prowd of Lincolnes In, and mr. Limytayr. Thear went withe us, 
 for Eton colledge, mr. Allen and mr. Weaver, the two bursars, and 
 mr. Simonson, subwarden of Merton colledge, riding bursar for 
 that colledge. 
 
 The shortnesse of the vacation and tlic circuit withe this progrcs 
 kept me from my ownc house almost all the summer. 
 
 It is not to be forgotten that the sergeants-at-laav gave cache 
 of them 600/. to the king, and sum of them were not worthe the 
 money, and sum never likely to see it halfe againe in thear practise. 
 ]\Ir. George Croke was left out bycaus he reluscd to give the 
 money, and offence taken at his words bycaus he sayd he thought it 
 was not for the king. 
 
 The 24 day of November, 1614, anno Jacobi regis 12", Siii 
 Henry Dymock of Erdington in the countye of Warwick, knighte, 
 did grant unto me an annuitye of 4Z. per annum for my life. I had 
 deserved well at his hand, for if I had not payd a good sum of money 
 for him upon a sodeyne, he had lost Erdington. I toke of him 
 fower ycares payment. The money came to 1,400/. that he was to 
 pay me. Pie began his first payment in Michaelmas term 8 Jacobi, 
 his last was Michaelmas term 12 Jacobi, at whiche time he shold 
 have payd me 440/., but not being able, and least he shold be put 
 in hazard to suffer a forfeiture of his land, althoughe no danger 
 woldc have cum by it, yet to make the dealing more secure on his part, 
 1 conveyed back his land, and toke a statute of him for 260/. of the 
 money he could not pay me, and so discharged him of the mortgage. 
 The noble lady the lady Elizabeth Cook, wife to the lord 
 
 * " Servant of queen Elizabeth, counsellor of king James, and friend of sir Philip 
 Sydney;" created lord Brooke in 1620. 
 
 ■f Dr. George Mountaigne, or Montaigne, dean of Westminster ICIO — 1617, and sub- 
 sequently Ijishop in succession of Lincoln and London.
 
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 chccf justice, did send me tills term fur a present half a doc, whicho 
 I tokc for a great favour at her hands. 
 
 For the Benevielexces 1 was left out in the countrey, lor wlien 
 my name was proposed before the justices, they bad let me alone, for 
 tliey wold speidcc withe me at I^ondon about it, so I was altogcather 
 omitted, yet in Michaelmas term I got the xoUc into my hands and 
 put myself 40s., Avhiche I did to avoyd the danger of giving more 
 singlyc. i\Ir. Lydall and mr. Clerk, two justices of the peace of the 
 countye of Barks, bothe my pulsnees, wear set at 51. ether, by the 
 lord Knollys, and payd it. It is great pityc that thear was occation 
 to seek for money this way. 
 
 Upon Tuesday the 13 day of December 1614, ]\Iary the wife of 
 my brother-in-law Henry Bulstrode departed this life, at Horton 
 in the countye of Bucks, having been sik of a consumption three 
 yearcs at the least. She was mr. Read's sister of Barkshire. 
 
 Giftes given me this Christmas. 
 
 Sir Frauncis Leighe, a hanche of venison. 
 
 IMr. Richard Vans, a doe. 
 
 AVilliam Wliitolocke of Okingham, a fat turkey. 
 
 My mother Browne, 4 coUai's of brawne, 4 capons, a capon pyo, and goose py. 
 
 Sir Henry Dymock, a colar of brawne and 3 capons. 
 
 "Widow Mountague, 2 capons. 
 
 Samuel Baker, 2 capons. 
 
 !My cosen Feck, a bottle of bastard.* 
 
 ^ly brother Bowsti'cd, a swan and 2 geese, 2 capons, a color of brawne, a 
 lletche of bacon. 
 
 Anthony Bull, 6 silver spoones and 2 partriches. 
 
 Sir llumfrcy ^lay, impost for 2 ton of Avyne. 
 
 Sir George Wrighte, a girdle. 
 
 Xurse Harding, a goose; A\'illiam Croke, a cake ; mr. Jones, a goose and a 
 chync of pork. 
 
 Given away by me this Christmas. 
 
 To the master of the Kollcs, Sir Julius Civsar, a firkin of sturgeon. 
 
 To justice Croke, a sugar lofe and a turkey. 
 
 To my lord cheef justice, a swan and 2 turkcyes. 
 
 « « 
 
 Your brown bastard is your only drink." 1 Il.n. IV. act ii. sc. I. Uarrct, in liis 
 Alvcaric, says it was " niuseadid, swwt wint.-."'
 
 46 LlliEK 1 AMELICUS. 
 
 Upon the dcathc of the lord Harington the sun, the benefit of on 
 nioityc of sir John Roper's office, whiche was setled in me by his 
 appoyntmcnt, did cum to the ludye Harington his mother as execu- 
 trix and trusted withe the whole estate to pay his father's debts, 
 and she transferred all to the countesse of Bedford, her daughter, 
 who made an agrearaent withe the erl of Somerset to transfer it to 
 him. The erl required to have it discharged, by the countesse, of 
 the divident of a twelf part, whiche I was to have by covenant for 
 execution of it, for that he was to give a twelf to mr. Heathe lor 
 execution, and conceaved thear wold not need two to execute; 
 whearfore, to get my goodwill to consent to this, and to have from 
 me that whiche my lord Harington had given me, I had from the 
 countesse 8001. in readye money, and the alteration was this : I made 
 new covenants withe the erl, by whiche I did covenant to surrender 
 up the office at his request, and not execute it but by warrant under 
 his hand and seal. See more infra, p. 57. 
 
 This Ester term 1615, I christened a childe for mr. Edward 
 Nevill, brother of sir Henry iS'evill of Pillingbeer, and called him 
 James. 
 
 I gave to the building of the librurye at Oxon 61 I3s. id., and 
 receaved an acquittance for it from sir John Bennet, thesaurer, 15 
 Junii, 1615. 
 
 On Munday the tenthe of July, 1615, at Pillingbeer in the 
 countye of Barkes, departed out of this life sir Henry Nevill, 
 my true and worthy frend. He was lineally descended from Edward 
 lord Abergueveny, fourthe sun of Raphe Nevill first erl of VVestmer- 
 land. He was a most laythcful frend unto me, tarn in adversis quam 
 sccundU, and I dealt as well withe him, for at the time 1 was com- 
 mitted to the Fleet, he was hunted after by the erl of xsorthampton, 
 as the author of the opposition against that irregular commission 
 spoken of before in the declaration of that busincssc; but, althoughe 
 he was an actor in it withe far greater men, yet his good lordship 
 could never finde it out, notwithstanding he cawsed me to be kept 
 close prisoner and examined by the lords of the counscU ; the truthe
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. 47 
 
 is, he durst not name him playnly, althoughe he aymcd at him, and I 
 Iind reason enouglie to conceal him. 
 
 He was the most sufficient man for understanding of state 
 businesse that was in this kingdom, and a verye good scholer and a 
 stout man, but was as ignobly and unworthely handled as ever 
 gentleman was. Two of his enemyes he saw dye ignominiously 
 before him. The tresorer Salisburye, that rotted above ground, and 
 Northampton, that dyed of a gangren in his thighe, a verye rot, and 
 left the world suspected of ill dealing toward the state. He was 52 
 ycares of age when he dyed. 
 
 This summer, as I came from Staflbrd, whcar the circuit ended, I 
 met sir Henry Savill, the Provost of Eaton, and Warden of ]\Icrton 
 Colledge in Oxon., at Everdon in Northamptonshire, neer Dantree, 
 and kept four courtes withe him, two for Eton Colledge and two for 
 Merton Colledge, and was at home 19 Augusti. 
 
 At my retorn 1 sent a salmon to MY LORD CHEEF JUSTICE* to 
 Stoke, that cost me 22s. ; he invited me withe many other gentlemen 
 in the countrye to the eating of it, and sent mc half a buck afterward. 
 Thear wear at dynner, at the invitation, the lord Davers,t sir Henrye 
 Drewrye, sir William Boyer, sir Robert Cooke my lord's sun and 
 heir and his wife sister to the lord Barkley, widow Bcrneires my 
 lord checf justice' daughter, mr. William Clerk sun and heir to sir 
 William Clerk of Hitcham, mr. Ausham, parson Wrighte, mr. Hynde 
 the lawer, and other neighboures. 
 
 As I was riding thether to dynner to that meating, whiche 
 was ultimo Augusti 1615, I met MR. secretarye Wynwood in 
 Windsor, cumming from the court at Farnham. He toke me from 
 horsback into his coatche, downe to Eaton, and thear did visit his 
 sun James, godsun to the States of the Low Countryes, and sent by 
 me this newes to the lord cheef justice, that the bishop of Win- 
 chester was sworn of the privye counsell upon the day before, at 
 Farnham, and prayed my lord he wolde be at Windsor on Sunday, 
 
 * Sir Edward Coke, at Stoke Pogcis. 
 
 t Henry lord Danvers of Dantsev, afterwards earl of Danhv.
 
 48 LIP.ER FAMELICUS. 
 
 at tlic kinir's cuiuuiin^j-, and not to look for a mcsscn^jcr. I did these 
 anaiids to my lord, and he after dinner would have had me gone to 
 tahk'?, a matche at dul)hlc hand withe himself and others. I toldc 
 him mr. secretary had requested me to cum to him so soon as I could 
 to Ditton. So I presently went thether, and my lord sent this 
 message by me, that he woldc not fayle to be at court, and he shold 
 finde him as he ever had. I told mr. secretary, that he gave sum 
 item he woldc inclyne in opinion, in sum matter before spoken oi', as 
 desired. 
 
 Upon Sunday, 3 September, I was at the sermon at Windsor, 
 whear preached doctor Feild, on of the canons, and dean of Glocester. 
 Thear was mr. secretarye and my lord cheef justice. They sat in 
 the stalles over me. So soon as the sermon was done, mr. secretary 
 beckoned to me to cum to him, so did my lord cheef justice. I 
 presently went to mr. secretary, Avho invited me to dyne withe him. 
 I tolde him I coulde not. He ajiswered me againe, "I,* that is by- 
 caus my lord cheef justice hathe called yow, and yow dard not deny 
 him." " Sir," sayd I, " yow must be bothe denycdnow, for I have 
 divers of my frendes at home withe me." My lord, so sone as I 
 came to him, " Cum, mr. Whitelocke," saythehe, " I will makeboldo 
 Avithe yow, on of my ownc coat; I pray thee let me have thy com- 
 panye out of the churche, for I am a stranger heer." So I led him 
 out of the churche by the arm, and then Avent withe him to his 
 coatchc, into the upper court. And, as I Avent Avith him, I asked him 
 Avhy he stayed not at the court to dynner. He told me, that whilest 
 he stood by the king at dynner, he Avoldc be ever asking of him ques- 
 tions of that nature that he had as life be out of the roome, and that 
 made him be as ftir of as he raighte ever at sutche times. I gesse it 
 was concerning matters of his prerogative, Avhiche the king Avolde 
 take ill if he Avcar not ansAvered in them as he Avolde have it. Upon 
 Tuesday, 5 September, I dyned withe the secretary at his lodging in 
 Windsor Castle, and presently after dynner went withe him to Stoke 
 to my lord cheef justice and his ladye, Avhear he stayed two howor.", 
 
 ■ TlK.t is, " Ave,"
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. 49 
 
 and rctorned back againe to the court. My lord tlianked liim for his 
 kindcnessc unto me. j\Ir. secretarye told him lie wold be willing to 
 <lo nic any kindcnessc, and that I was of his olde acquayntancc in 
 Oxon. In the way a packet of letters was delivered unto him by 
 a post whiche came from Venice, Irom sir Dudley Carlton. On 
 Thursday, 21 September, my wife and I wear bidden to Stoke to 
 dinner by my lord cheef justice and his ladye. 1 went, but she went 
 not. Ther dyned the ladye Elizabeth Guillbrd and the lady Marye 
 Arundell, two of the earl of Worcester's daughters, the lady llennagc 
 and lady Maynard widowes, the lady Maynard baronettesse, sir 
 William Bryer ami his lady, and sir Marmaduke Darrell and his 
 ladye. 
 
 IMy wife, bycaus she refused to go to Stoke, refused to go also in 
 the afternoon to Ditton Park, to the christening of mr. secretarye's 
 childe, "whether she was invited. 
 
 About i\Iichaelmas, IGla, or sum few dayes after, sir IIeniiv 
 Dymock my ancient acquayntancc died at Erdington in the countyc 
 of Warwick, and for want of a will his whole inheritance descended 
 to x\n Dymock, daughter of Frauncis Dymock his eldest brother. 
 
 Giftos given me this Christmas. 
 
 Sir Frauncis Leighe, a phesant. 
 
 !My brother Uiilstrode, a colhir of brawne. 
 
 My mother in law, 4 colhirs (jfbrawnc, "i capons, a goose py, a capon pye. 
 
 Mr. Richard IMarlin, of the Middle Temple, three quarters of a doe. 
 
 Mr. Vaus, a doe. 
 
 St. John's Colledge, a pair of gloves. 
 
 My cosen Peck, a jar of olives. 
 
 Given by me this Christmas. 
 To mr. justice Crokc, a turkey and a sugar lofo. 
 
 In my going into my circuit this summer, IfilG, 1 kept n court at 
 Bledlow in Ruckingliamshirc^ for Eton CoHedgo, and was verve 
 CAMD. SOC. II
 
 50 LIBER FAMELICU8. 
 
 royally enterloyncd by my oM acqiuiyntancc Mr. Riciiard More 
 of the Middle Temple, the coUedgc tenant thear. His wife and myne 
 ar kinsewomen. He refused his reading in the Middle Temple, and 
 was made presently alter master of the ehancerye. 
 
 At my retorne out of ihc circuit 1 was enterteyned at St. John's 
 Collcdge, and came along from Oxon. to Eton Collcdgc to the elec- 
 tion, whcar the provost of Eton, the provost of King's Collcdge in 
 Cambridge, the provost of Queen's CoUedge in Oxon. and dr. 
 Wrighte, canon of Wells, vicar of Sunning, and parson of Heys in 
 ]\Iiddlesex, did keep togeather all the election weeke. 
 
 The provost of Queen's CoUedge dr. Arn, a grave, lerned, and 
 reverend man, dyed about IMichaelmas after this meeting was in the 
 be<Tinnin«- of August. Presently upon my retorn to Cluar I did 
 visit that honorable and worthye judge SIR Edward Coke, lord 
 cheef justice of England, who was newly retorned to Stoke from the 
 parts about London, whear he was fayne to attend about his infor- 
 tunate businesses at the court. Never man was so just, so ujn-ighte, 
 free from corruption, sollicitations of great men or frendes, as he 
 was. Never put counselors that practised before him to annuall 
 pensions of money or plate to have his favour. In all cawses before 
 him the counselor mighte assure his clyent from the danger of 
 briberye, the secret mischeefs growing by wife, children, servants, 
 chamber motions, courteours great or smale,and the most religious and 
 orderlye man in his house that lived in our state. Thear grew sum 
 sraale questions between him and sum of his tenants at Stoke 
 about copies.* He sent for me, prayed me to keep his court, and 
 to order all things as I sholde see cawse in justice, upon view of 
 his roUes, and that he wold be contented withe what I determined 
 withe him or against him. And accordinglye I did keep his court 
 the Tuesday after Michaelmas day, and gave good satisfaction to 
 those that made clamor against him. 
 
 This ^lichaelmas term, 1610, the king bestowed the deaneryc of 
 
 • Copyholds ; estates held by copy of court-roll.
 
 LIBER FAMKLICUS. 
 
 .'51 
 
 Hereford upon my good Ircnd Riciiakd Mol'N'T.voue, (tllow d 
 Eton CoUcdge, and tlic dcancrye of Glocester upon my good fiend 
 DU. Laud, president of St. John's Colledgc in Oxon. The deancryo 
 of Glocester was voyd by the deatlic of a most worthyc and re- 
 ligious divine, namely doctor Feild, an Oxford man, and canon of 
 Windsor. Kichurd Mountague was fellow of King's Colledgc in 
 Cambridge. 
 
 On Munday, 18 Xovcmber, 1016, was placed chcef justice in the 
 King's Benchc siii IIenuy Mountague, on of the king's sergeants 
 at law, in the roome of sir Edward Coke, who was removed from 
 his place upon the king's displeasure. What was the cawse of the 
 oftencc by the king is not for subjects to meddle withe, but those 
 that practised before him, or had cawses before him, found him the 
 most just, honest, and incorrupt judge that ever sate on benchc. 
 Wliat wear the cawses rumored abroadc I mean not at this time to set 
 downe. 
 
 Sir Henrye Mountague was of the Middle Temple, a yonger sun of 
 sir Edward Mountague of Boughton in com. Northampton, knightc, 
 who was sun and heir of sir Edward Montague, knighte, cheei' justice 
 of the Common Pleas. 
 
 The lord chancclor, upon the sayd 18 day of November, when he 
 came into the court of King's Benchc to give the othc to the new 
 cheef justice, made a verye bitter invective against the late chcel 
 justice, taunting him withe being ambitiouslye popular, and other 
 faultes whichc no Avay towched his honest, just, and uprighte 
 dealing, but rather implying faultes so esteemed to be in a 
 monarchicall state, and did ernestly incite the now cheef justice to 
 avdyil the faultes and fortune of his predecessor, and to imitate 
 the virtues and strive after the fortunes and honors of his grantl- 
 fathcr, whiche I merveyled at, considering how unfortunate the end 
 of his grandfather was, whiche I will relate out of the mouthe of sir 
 Sydney INIountague, master of the requcstes, brother to my lord chcef 
 justice and a barester of the Middle Temple necr my time. Sir 
 Edward Montague was (irst chcef justice of England, then of the
 
 52 LIRER FATVIKLTCUS. 
 
 Cuinnioii I'loa?, lor in liis covetous humor he Iclt the higher phicc 
 to descend into tlic more gaynfuH. He was a privic counselor to 
 Henry VIII., and ah intimis withe those actions that ar to be con- 
 demned. He [was] left to be on oi' the counselors to Edward VI. 
 by Henry VIII., and made on of his executors. When queen 
 Marye came to the croAvne, she cast him into the Towr for treason, 
 l)eing the man upon whome the making of king Edward the VI. 
 will was layd. But he shewed for his help a writ under the 
 great seal by Edward VI. commanding him to make the will in 
 forma, and a charter of pardon after the will made, and olFercd 
 proof that he was inforced by the threates of the duke of Xorth- 
 unibrrland to make the will, so his mult was lossc of his place, 
 and payment of 3,000/. It is a proverb, " Many Mountagues, but 
 on !Markham."* 
 
 In Aug. last, 1616, sir Augustin Nicols, a justice of the 
 Common Pleas, dyed in his circuit in the northe. He was at a great 
 euterteynmeut at Xaworthe at the lord "William Howard's,! whear 
 he fed upon his last food, for he dyed within few dayes after, and 
 never eat or drank after his meal at Xaworthe that he could reteync, 
 but was taken withe a violent distemper of casting [and] purging; 
 untill he dyed as if he had been poysoned, and sayd to his people 
 about him, he sholde dye, and yet he knew not of what he was sik. 
 He was a most lerned and uprightc judge, of an exceeding pleasant 
 and affable behavior, a cumly man of personage, and beloved of all 
 men but of those that love none that will not say as they do. He 
 was of the Middle Temple, and so was his father before him, a veryc 
 grave and lerned reader. He was 57 yeares of age in Aprill last, as 
 he told me when he saAv me last. 
 
 This Michaelmas term, 1616, I boughte of sir William Alford 
 
 • This proverb, which has not been found mentioned elsewhere, is one of many 
 testimonies to the popular reputation of that excellent and truly honourable public 
 functionar}-, sir John Markham, lord chief justice in the reign of Edward IV, For several 
 generations he was continually cited a-s " the upright judge." See Foss's Judges, iv, 441. 
 
 t Belted Will.
 
 LIBER I AMELTCrS. 53 
 
 of Mcux in tlic countyo ol" York the manor op Fawlky in the 
 c-ountycs of Bucks and Oxon. It cost nic 9,000/., of whiclic I payd 
 3,000/. rciidyo money, and am to pay G,()00/., tliat is to say, 2,000/. 
 ultimo Nov. 1017, 2,000/. ultimo Mail, IfilS, and 2,000/. ultimo 
 Nov. 1018. 1 tokc liveryc of seapin upon the 5 of December, 1616, 
 of the land in Bukinghamsliirc, and of the land in Oxfordshire, 20 
 December, 1616. I kept court for attornament of the tenants upon 
 the feast day of St. Thomas tlic apostle, 1616. 
 
 In Januarye dyed MR. Lkwes Prowd, a reader of Lincolne's In 
 and justice of assise for three shires in Wales, and on of the go- 
 vernors of Sutton's hospitall. By his deathe I had by survivor the 
 stewardship of the lands of Westminster Colledgc, and the steward- 
 ship, or under stewardship, of the court of St. Marlin's-le-grand, 
 London. 
 
 Thomas lord Elsmeer vlscount Brackley, and chancelor 
 of England, dyed in tlie beginning of Martclie, 1616. It had been 
 good for this common wealtlic il" lie had been out of the worldc 20 
 yeares before, for he was the greatest cneniye to the common law 
 that ever did bear oflicc of state in this kingdome; he was ther- 
 upon termed viscount Brcaklaw for viscount Brackley. The seal 
 was taken from him sum small time before he dyed, and delivered 
 to sir Frauncis Bacon, the attorney-gcnerall, who was a younger sun 
 of sir Nicolas Bacon, keeper of the great seal, and was a dooblc 
 reader in Grayes In, first sollicitor, and then attorney. 
 
 Sir Henry Yelverton, the king's sollicitor, was made attor. 
 ney. He was a reader of Grayes In, and sun and heir to sir Chris- 
 topher Yelverton, on of the justices of the king's benche : his mother 
 was daughter to Catesbyc of "Wliiston, whose mother was daughter 
 to sergeant I'igot, and sister to my wile's great-grandmother, the 
 wife of George Bulstrode esquier. Mil. Tikxmas Coventree, 
 of the Inner Temple, a green reader, being newly chosen a recorder 
 of London, came to be sollicitor and knighted. He was sun and heir 
 to Tho. Coventree, u judge of the Common Pleas, and red in sum- 
 mer 1616, being then my puisne tlircc yccrs, how and nuibus (jradi-
 
 54 LIREU FAMELICUS. 
 
 bus asceudil (id /nee culinina, fjuwre. Mr. J«^lin Walter, the prince's 
 attorney, the fittest man in England for it, and ancient to nir. Co- 
 ventrce a dozen year or more, was omitted, Avhomcall the world had 
 dcstinated to the place. 
 
 These tlirecj Yelverton, Walter, and Coventree, wear my speciall 
 frcuds and acqnayntance, and I and they rid Oxfordshire circuit to- 
 geatlier manye yearcs. 
 
 Mil. Anthonye Ben, a reader of the Middle Temple, stepped in 
 to be recorder of London. He was a citisen's sun of London, well 
 cnoughe spoken, but liis spokesman in this busiuesse was the king's 
 letters, procured by a great on about him, to wit, tlie erl of Buck- 
 ingham. 
 
 Sir Georoe Snigg, on of the barons of the eschcquer, was put 
 from his circuit of Glamorgan, Radnor, and Brecknock ; and Walter 
 Pye, barister of the Middle Temple, whose turn is not to reade un- 
 till next Lent, was put into his place by the meanes of the erl of 
 Buckingham. The lord chancelor Elsmcer wold have had the place 
 for sergeant Frauncis More, but could not, as I herd credibly. This 
 sergeant was knighted in Martche last. 
 
 On MR. Naunton, that had been a fellow of a colledge in Cam- 
 bridge, and was not long si thence made master of the requests and 
 knighted, was by the meanes of the ladye Compton, mother to the 
 erl of Buckingliam, made surveyor of the court of wards this winter, 
 a place ever held by men lenied in the law, as Kingesmill, Kella- 
 way, and the like, and this man a schoUer, but meer stranger to the 
 law. 
 
 Also 8IR Lionel Cranfeild, that was an apprentice boy in Lon- 
 don of late yeares, and sithence thrust into the acquayntance of great 
 men by the dealings of William Peache and Richard Lyons, 50 
 Edward II L,* was made master of the requests by the erl of Bucking- 
 ham's meanes; a place requiring a man lerned, ether in the civill or 
 
 * William Peachcy and Richard Lyons were two of the farmers of the customs whose 
 misdoings were a subject of parliamentary inquiry at the time hero referred to.
 
 LIBP:R F.VMELICU8. 55 
 
 common lawcs, and so they have allwayes been. These things 
 1 sot downc tor postoritye to know the course of things in our 
 profession. 
 
 Upon Satur(hiy the 5 of Aprill, being newly rctornetl out of the 
 circuit, I visited the new lord keeper, who gave me verye noljlc and 
 kinde words of encoragement. The same day 1 visited siii IIenrvk 
 Yelverton, the new attorney, who related unto me the manner 
 of his cumming to the place, and, shutting his clycnts and other re- 
 sort from him, shewed jiis ancient love and good opinion of me in an 
 cures discourse verye neer. That concerning his place was thus, that 
 the king having delivered the great seal to sir Frauncis Bacon, sayd, 
 openly, before the lords, that now he had setled that he had no 
 cawse to think farther upon the rest of his businesse, for they knew 
 he was resolved his sollicitor shold be attorney, and therefore sayd 
 merely, that if any man wold move him to the contrarye, he wold 
 thinke him half a traytor. Thereupon all the lordes gratulated the 
 sollicitor, sir Henrye Yelverton, as attorney, and he was directed to 
 make his warrant for the place that the kini:; mi^hte sij'ne it. This 
 publication, and the king's signification of his purpose otherwise, 
 made the sollicitor secure of him ; so he made his warrant readye 
 for the king to signe, and to have it exhibited at best opportunitye. 
 Not long after, he understood by sum of the lords, that the erl of 
 Buckingham was agent for an other, and did crosse him, and was 
 privily advised by sum of his frends, as the duke of Lenox,* the 
 archebishop of Canterburye,t and others, to repair unto him, and 
 make away the faltc. He absolutely resolved and vowed he wold 
 not deal withe hiin about it, nor speake to him, and so it continued 
 sum few dayes in a stanil, many of his frends telling him the eric 
 shewed himself openly against liim, and that he must get somebody 
 to move the king, or go t(^ him himself, iusomutche as the duke of 
 Lenox toldc him he had broke out intoplayne termcs witlie the erl 
 about his opposition against tlie king's purpose, and tlie desire of all 
 
 * Lodovick, second duko of Lenox, oli, 17 May, 10"23. f Archbishop Abbot.
 
 56 i.nu:u famklicus. 
 
 Ills lords and counscll, uiul that he liad exchanged as hot words withe 
 him as ever he did withe any of that rank. Sccreatarye Wynwood 
 oftered him to go withe him to the king to exhibit his warrant to be 
 signed, but he refused, and protested he wold leave it to the king, 
 who he knew had judgement enoughe to cluise his owne servants. 
 
 This continuing still in this sort, and the whole court being as 
 possessed of a stay of the proceeding, and fearing the hindcrance of 
 the successe by the erl's favour withe the king, on Robert Pye, a 
 servant of the crlV, who was imployed by him in his most private 
 afTayrcp, came to the sollicitor erly on mourning before he was out 
 of his bed, and being admitted to him, toldc him, that the erl of 
 Buckingham desired him to cum to liim, and to bring his warrant 
 that sholde be signed. He went unto him so soon as he was readye, 
 and, being led by him into a private room, did thcar begin a kinde 
 expostulation withe him, in that he had not used his help in 
 cumming to the place of attorney, telling him he intended to have 
 afforded him all the help he coulde, if he had been but spoken to in 
 it, and that he looked not for any recompence, notwithstanding sir 
 James Lea had offered 10,000^. to have the place, and making sum 
 shew that his favour withe the king Avas, in the opinion of the 
 world, ecklipscd by this neglect of him, and he not thoughte to be 
 of that power he had been, and other words tending to an invitation 
 of the sollicitor to use him in the businesse, and desired him to 
 deliver him the Avarrant, and he wolde presently get the king's hand 
 unto it. The sollicitor excused himself, that he soughte not for his 
 fartherance in it, bycaus he saw as well him as all other the lords 
 well pleased withe the king's purpose in it, and to have made a suit 
 to him had been to have suspected his favour to him, and besides 
 that, the king had discovered his purpose in it, and it was not 
 usuall, for sutche places, to acquaynt or deal withe the favorites of 
 kings, being things that go in coui-sc, unless cawse be to the con- 
 trarye. And tolde him he had always shewed himself readye to do 
 liim any courtcsye, and that he never disasscntcd from that he 
 desired but in on thing, and that was in being of opinion that the
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. o7 
 
 transaction made by sir John Roper for his office was not against the 
 statute 5 Edward VI. 
 
 So after mutche exchange of words, and a verye kinde conclusion 
 of all speeches, withe this especiallyc, that he could not mislike that 
 my lord shold be careful 1 for yutchc a on to cum into the place of 
 attorney that shold be his frend, considering it was a place that the 
 greatest men in the realme mighte have hurt or good by it, he toke 
 of him his warrant, got the king's hand to it, and broughtc [it] 
 againe unto him prcsentlye. 
 
 Mr. attorney did protest unto me ujjou his creadit that he nether 
 gave to the erl nor to any other subject in the kingdom on farthing to 
 cum to the place, nor contracted for anything, nor promised anythinr«- 
 nor had any speeche about it. But when the businesse was done, and 
 no expectation of any thing, he went privately to the king, and told 
 him he did acknoledge how like a good master and worthye prince he 
 had dcalte withe him, and, althoughe thor was never mention, 
 speeche, or expectation, of anything, to be had for his having of this 
 place, but he came to it freely, yet, oughte of his dutye, he wolde 
 give him 4,000/. readye money. The king toke him in his amies, 
 thanked him, and commended him mutche for it, and tolde him he 
 had need of it, for it must serve even to buy him dishes, and bad him 
 paye it to his servant ^lurrey, wdiichc he did, and shewed me the 
 acquittances for it, under the hand of mr. ]\Iurrcy, who, as I heer, is 
 keeper of the privie purse. 
 
 I toke by relation from sir Henrye Savill, the provost of 
 Eton and warden of Merton College, that he was 68 yeares of age 
 at St. Andrewes day 1617, and tliat he was chosen warden of 
 ^lerton College in anno 158-, and provost of Eton in anno 1.396. 
 
 I was blowen out of the olUce of the Kinges IJenche (de fjtio vide 
 supra, p. 40) in this manner following. The erl of Somerset being 
 attainted, the erl of Buckingham got the reversion of the olUce. Sir 
 John Roper wolde not yeild to surrender untill the king dealt withe 
 him. lie at the last agreed, and was made baron of Tenham in Kent, 
 and was contented two shold take a grant of the otficc for thcar lives, 
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 58 LIBEU FAMELICU8. 
 
 putting in sccuritye to make him ti true accompt of all profits during 
 his hie, and themselves to have nothing, nor to meddle withe the 
 execution of it. Those put in wear Robert licathc that was on of the 
 
 first patentees, the other Shute of Grey's In, tlirust in by menace 
 
 of the then attorney generall sir Francis Bacon, a privie counselor, 
 against the will of the then lord Tenham, who desired to have had me 
 in. But when 1 moved mr. attorney about it, who undertoke to manage 
 the businesse as he list, he tolde me he wished me better then to have 
 me a clerk accoumptant, and bad me go on in the course I was in, 
 and he woldc do me more kindnesse that way. I toke his fair 
 speeches as proceeding from his desire of his owne cndes, that was 
 to gratifye the Villers, by providing sum future stay for Shute, that 
 was a hangby and petifbgger of thearcs, and was never likelye to be 
 able to do more good then bear a name and another to take the 
 paync. I made no great sute to continue in, but desired that I 
 mighte be freed from that little interest I had in it from my lord of 
 Somerset by sum course of justice, as in the estchequer chamber. It 
 wolde not be suffered, but I receaved letters presently after from the 
 attorney, with a mandat from the king to surrender, and had sum 
 intimation under hand of threates if I did not. The letters wear 
 these. 
 
 Whearas i have receaved his Majesty's privie seal directed unto yow to make 
 surrender of those grants whiche were made unto yow of my lord Tenham's 
 oflice, I send yow heerwithe the said privie seal, requiring yow, all other 
 businesse set apart, forthewithe to perform the same, for whiche purpose yow, 
 mr. Ileathe, have writings allreadye prepared. 18 November, 1616. 
 
 Frauncis Bacon. 
 
 The superscription. To his loving frends, Ilobert 
 Ueathe and James Whitelocke, esquiers, theis. 
 
 The mandat began, " James, by the grace," and recited the grant 
 made to Heathe and me of that oflice, 7 Julii, 18 Jacobi, at the 
 petition of the then viscount Rochester, afterward erl of Somerset, 
 recited the covenant to surrender at his request, the righte of the 
 crowne by the attainder, and then commands us to surrender and
 
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 release to all covenants and bonds, all actione, dutyes, debts, and 
 demands, by reason of tlic sayd covenants and bonds. Dated 18 Nov. 
 14 Jacobi. The writ is lon<^s but is inrolldl in the King's Benche, 
 Michaelmas, 14 Jacobi, rot. 200. It did also recite the grant of sir 
 Edward Coke, lord checf justice of the King's Benche, made unto us 
 4 Nov. 11 Jacobi, a matter 1 knew not of untill I red it in the writ. 
 It was '* under the signet, at our palace of Westminster.'* I have the 
 copie of it at large among my papers. 
 
 Accordinjj to this command we did surrender into the hands of 
 the new cheef justice, sir Hcnric JNIountague, at Sergeants' In in Fleet 
 Street, 19 Nov., 14 Jacobi. And this is also inrolled in the King's 
 Benche, Michaelmas, 14 Jacobi, rotulo ducenteshno. 
 
 The office was presently granted by the cheef justice to Heathe 
 and Shute, in manner as is before expressed, and the chief justice 
 hathe 500/. the year out of it. 
 
 Robert Heathe dealt suspiciously in this matter, and 1 doubt he 
 will never have any great katche by it. They will be but bankers, 
 or cashcmcn, at the erl of Bukingham's command, and I am a free- 
 man, and hope so to continue. 
 
 In summer 1617 my wife and I spent our time at Fawly Court 
 mending and repayring the house, and orchardes and gardens about 
 it. In September I made a progresse journey to Cambridge, with 
 sir Ilenrye Savill, about the businesses of ^Icrton Colledge in Oxon., 
 whear we met withe lerned men, and had nnitche companye withe 
 them . 
 
 Richard Neil, late bishop of Lincoln, being this last vacation, 
 1617, promoted by the king to the bishoprik of Durham, granted 
 me a pension of 4/. per annum, pro concilio impenso et impcndendo, 
 and 5/. a year to mr. attorney general, sir Ilenrye Yclverton, and 
 o-ave ether of us five unites* for seasin, whiche is 51, lOs., eatche of us. 
 His patent is under the seal of his bishoprik. " Dated at Durham 
 House in Westminster, 15" Octo., 15 Jacobi." 
 
 * Tho "unite," or " unitic," was a sovereign, coined b_v Jauu'S I,, witli the design 
 that it should circulate throughout tho united sovereignties of England and Scotland.
 
 60 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 John Buckkidge, bisliop of Rochester, gave me an another 
 annuity of 40s. per annum, for counscll, dated 29 October, 15 Jacobi, 
 and 20s. for seasin. 
 
 I had taken for me alive, and sum bred up, at FaAvley, this Latter 
 end of the year 1017, above sixty partriges. I gave a covey of 
 thirteen alive ons to the lord keeper, and another covey of ten to the 
 lord chief justice of the King's Benchc, and this was a little before 
 Michaelmas term becjan. 
 
 Upon the 27 of November, 1617, the lord keeper, upon the motion 
 of the lord cheef justice Mountague, being justice of assise in Buk- 
 inghamshire, and of sum of the principall gentlemen of the countrye, 
 made his warrant, dated that day, to the clerk of the crowne, sir 
 George Coppin, to place me in the commission of the peace in the 
 countye of Bucks, and I was placed accordingly, and of the quorum. 
 My othe was given me by mr. justice Croke, to whome, and to 
 Eichard More, esq., master of the chancerye, a commission was 
 awarded to take myne othe. I was placed fourthe esquier in the 
 countye. 
 
 The dean and chapter of Westminster did grant a new patent to 
 me alone, of the office of generall steward of all thear lands, whiche 
 I held joyntly withe mr. Prowd whilest he lived. I had also the 
 understewardship of st. Martin's granted me by expresse wordes, 
 dated 6 December, 1617. The dean wolde fayne have had mr. 
 Eichard Dover of Grayes In to have been joyned Avithe me, but the 
 chapter utterly refused it. 
 
 Upon Sunday, 14 December, 1617, George Mountayne, dr. in 
 divinitye, dean of Westminster, was consecrated bishop of Lincolnc, 
 at Lambethe. His successor in Westminster was doctor Townson, 
 chapleyne sum time to my lord Coke, and after preferred to be the 
 king's chaplein, but the time he was made dean of Westminster he 
 had no spirituall living, but of my lord Coke's gift. These two 
 deanes weare fellowes of Queen's Colledge in Cambridge. 
 
 The same day doctor Felton, parson of Bow, was consecrated 
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 In Michaelmas term, 1017, dyed my wortliyc frond Siii Kapiie 
 Wynwoode, principal sccretarye; his acquayntance and mync 
 began in Oxon., uhear he was a master of art and fellow of Mag- 
 dalen Colledge, and procter of the university together withe Thomas 
 Savill, brother of sir Henry Savill, who dyed not long after, fellow 
 of ]\Ierton Colledge. Into the place of seereatarye Wynwood came 
 mr. Robert Nawnton, a master of art sumtlnies in Cambridge, who 
 before was on of the masters of rerpiestes, and surveyor of the court 
 of Avardes, and into the place of surveyor of the court of wardcs came 
 sir Humfrcy May. 
 
 Siii Hu:mfrky May was one of the suns of liicluud ^lay, a 
 wcalthye citisen of London, whiche liichard was born in Portugall 
 of Englishe parents, and lived verye worshipfully in the citye of 
 London untill he dyed. Sir Humfrey and I came from Oxon. 
 tocreathcr to the Middle Temple, and boughtc a chamber, and wear 
 admitted into it the first time we came, and so continued untill he 
 went into Ireland about the end of the raigne of queen Elizabeth 
 withe the lord Mountjoy, and when he came over withe him in the 
 kinfr's time he was made a groome of the privie chamber for 500^., 
 whiche place he left to a brother of his, and became seereatarye in 
 Eno-land for the kingdom of Ireland, and dispatched all businesses 
 for that countrye. Afterward having been surveyor of the court of 
 wards sum few weekes, he was made chancelor of the duchye of 
 Lancaster, whiche place was voyd by the deathe of sir John 
 Daccomb. lie was set ther in Ester term 1618. Into the roome of 
 surveyor of the court of wards, Ester term, 1618, was preferred 
 Benjamin Eudyerd, immediately after knighted. He and I wear 
 toireather in st. John's Colledge in Oxon., and came from thence 
 about on time to the Middle Temple, and wear called to the bar 
 togeather by mr. Nicholas Ovcrburye, in his reading August 1600, 
 but 1 was called absolutely, and he so as the Bcnche wolde allow it 
 at the term. He Iclt the studye of the law, and betooke himself to 
 travcll, and, getting into the good opinion of the erl of Pembroke 
 ;ind other noblemen. w;is put into this plaee, whiche is the place of
 
 62 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 a lerncd lawyer, and had over been so holden iintill ?ir Robert 
 Nawnton was thrust in. 
 
 Justice Warberton and justice Crokc, justices of" assize for the 
 countye of Oxon., wrote letters to the lord chancelor signifying that 
 it was verye convenient I shold be in commission in the countye of 
 Oxon., as well as in Bukinghamshire, and therupon a warrant Avas 
 directed to the clerk of the crowne in these words. 
 
 These ar to will and require you to place James Whitelocke, esquier, in the 
 commission of the peace for the county of Oxon ; and this shall be your warrant. 
 From York House, this 7 of May, 1618. 
 
 Fr. B., Cane. 
 To sir George Coppin, knighte, clerk of the crowne. 
 
 Justice Warberton lay at my house at Fawly court, and gave me 
 my othe; it was in his way to Oxford assises, 2 Julii. 
 
 This vacation in summer, 1618, thear did resort to me and lodse 
 withe me, of my frendes, the ladye Browne my wife's mother. Sir 
 John Tirrell and his ladye, Pawl Croke and his wife, sir Henry 
 Browne, the deanes of Westminster and Gloucester, docter Dayrell, 
 the porvost of Eaton; and I toke a journey into Oxfordshire to meet 
 the dean of Westminster at Lawnton, from whence I went withe him 
 to Islip, from thence to Stevington in Barkshire, to mr. Wiseman's, 
 and so home, and left Richard Okely my clerk to keep courtes for 
 me, whiche place he had supplyed the whole progresse, before I came 
 to them. 
 
 In August, 1618, being on of the cubberdmen of the Middle 
 Temple, I went up to argue at the reading, the reader being mr. 
 Ford of Devonshire, to whome I gave a buck and 145. 
 
 This vacation I was, by the lord chancelor's letters, requested to 
 joyne withe sergeant Frauncis JNIore, knighte, to settle the contro- 
 versies between sir Frauncis Stonor, knighte, and sir Henrye 
 Stonor his sun and his wife, who was daufrhter to sir William 
 Woodhouse, and neece to the lord chancelor by his sister. 
 
 I was present at Wickham at the assises for the countye of Bucking- 
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 the charge, and did it. Thear wear present sir Marmaduke Darrell, 
 cofercr, sir William Clerk, sir William Fleetwood, sir William 
 Borlas, sir Frauncis Godwyn, sir Frauncis Chcyney, nir Thomas 
 Lee, my brother Bowstred, and Christopher Hampden. 
 
 This Mychaelmas term I gave away in presents twelve live 
 partrlges to the lord chancelor, twelve to the lord checf justice, and 
 twelve to the chancelor of the duchye, at on time, and six at an 
 other, besides those I spent myself, all whiche I toke out of my 
 demeanes at Fawlye, to the number of sixty, and I toke as many 
 thear the last Avynter, and yet the grownd as well stored as any in 
 the countrye, by letting go the olde ons for mates. 
 
 Between i\lichaelmas and the term dyed my ancient frend sir 
 Anthony Ben, of the Middle Temple, reader and recorder of 
 London, and in his place was elected, by the king's letters, MR. 
 Richard Martin, of tlie ]\Iiddle Temple. He was made recorder 
 by the sollicitation of sir Lyonell Cranfeild, master of the requestes, 
 being tolde it shold be done for him, but he must bo thankful. He 
 consented, but knew not in what manner, and heincr elected 
 bestowed sum two or three hundred pound in gratuities, but was 
 afterward made acquaynted tliat 1,500/. was to be payd, whiche was 
 appoynted to be delivered by him to sir Edward Zouche, to help to 
 make payment of 3000/. to sir Thomas Vavasor, Avhiche he was to 
 have of him lor surrendring his place of marshall uf the house, into 
 whiclie sir Edward was to succeed. This money was layd downe by 
 sir Lyonell Cranfeild for mr. INIartin, but it lay so heavye at mr. 
 Martin's hart after he knewe of it, that ho fell ill and heavye upon 
 it, and toke his chamber and never came forthe untill he was caryed 
 to buryall. He died upon Allhallond eve, 1618. 1 was sent unto the 
 next morning to stand for the place. I sent presently into London to 
 my liendes the aldermen, and to the court. From the court I was 
 certifyed from sir Edward Zouche he liad 1 ,500/. in his purse upon 
 the last placing, and he wold labor to keep that, and from a frend 
 of sir Lyonell Cranieild's that he had layd out 1,500/., and was like
 
 04 LIBKU TAMELICUS. 
 
 to loose it if he wear not salved upon the new election, and 1 was 
 advised to cum in as a peeser up of tliat bracke. 
 
 But in thcslcknesseofmr. Martin, inr. Sliute of Grayes In had, by 
 the lord niarqucssc mcanes, moved the king and procured letters 
 ready for the signature, whichc wanted only date and signing, and 
 so soone as mr. Martin's breathe was out of his bodye had them 
 sio-ned, and sent to the maior and aldermen to elect him. The 
 purport of the letters wear that he was commended to the king for a 
 sufficient man, by the lord chancelor and lord cheef justice, and so 
 pressing them to elect him. These wear delivered to the lord maior 
 and aldermen upon Munday morning, being Alsoules day, but they 
 wear parsonally sollicited by the chief justice, and by certcyne 
 knightes sent from the raarquesse, as they wear in Pawles churche, 
 upon Allhallond day, whiche was the day after his deathc, and that 
 withe rautche gesture and importunitye. I made meanes to the 
 cityc by sir William Cockayne, sir Thomas Bennet, Prescot and 
 Bennet aldermen, and divers other sollicited by ther brethrcen my 
 very good frends, and had ther good opinion for the good service 
 they conceaved I [had] done for the citye in the parliament. Upon 
 ]\Iunday morning, being Alsoules day, they went to the election. I 
 was advised to be in a frond's house in the citye, not far off, whichc 
 I was. Mr. Shute came to Guildehalle, to the court of aldermen, 
 in wreat braverye, withe manye of his frends accompanying him ; he 
 sent in his letters, and expected a present election. The ilrst work 
 was, who shold be put in election, whiche ar to be fowr, and the 
 aldermen first go to that choyce by scrutinye. Mr. Shute's letters 
 beino- red first, exception was taken by some frendes of myne, that 
 the kiufr, contrarye to his promis by his last letters, had this time 
 pressed them withe letters; secondly, that he had commended unto 
 them a man knowen to be unworthye and unfit for the place. The 
 altercation grew warm between the courtiers' followers and the free 
 citisens. At last, among other unfitnesses, it was alledged he was 
 outlawed; it was so maynly denycd, that in all hast they that
 
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 affirmed it wear faync to send for the record from the counter, 
 whiche was broughte and shewed, and thcrupon the election brake 
 up, and he departed withe highc and menacing speeches against 
 them. 
 
 Upon this thear grew a great displeasure, THE loud chan'CELOR 
 toke it verye ill, and sent for divers of the ahlermen [and] pressed 
 them to give reason of tlier refusall. They denyed. The king toke 
 it ill, and, beginning to reprehend the lord chancelor for cawsing him 
 to commend an unfit and unworthye man, he was justifyed by the lord 
 chancelor to be a fit and worthyc man, and made beleev it was sum 
 matter of faction and private end, and requested the king to imploy 
 him in finding of it out, whiche the king wold shold be so. Heer- 
 upon the lord chancelor rulfeled mutche Avitlic divers of the aldermen, 
 whomc he sent for. Withe them he talked, bothe openly and 
 togeathcr and singly and privately withe eatche of them, in his 
 studye, to know why they refused, and to pressc them to give an 
 andsuer whiche he mighte retorn to the king. They told him they 
 mighte not discover tlie secreatcs of ther counsell, nor give reasons 
 why they [did] any thing in ther counsell-chamber, and therfore 
 desired to be pardoned, and so kept of, and in the mean time sent 
 a committee of four aldermen to the king, and to the marquesse, to 
 satisfyc them. When they wear broughte to the king, he demanded 
 of them why they did not chuse mr. Shute, whome he commended 
 by the information of the lord chancelor and lord cheef justice, mr. 
 Shute standing thear by. The aldermen desired they mighte, 
 according to ther charters, have a free election, without being pressed 
 by letters. They wear pressed to give reasons why they refused him ; 
 mr. Shute charging them withe siding, and private ends, and that 
 he had a major part, or at least the better. They allirming before 
 the king, that he had not on man desired his being chosen, and being 
 mutche urged, brake out into a disco verye of his being outlawed. 
 The marquesse excused that, and tolde the king that it was upon an 
 action sued against him, when he was a yong man, for a baterye. 
 They replyed he was outlawed in tiftocn more, and sum of them 
 
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 wear for tlclU alter judgement. So, after mutche altercation, it was 
 tlu.uglite ))>' tlio inarquessc an impossibil[it]yc to have him accepted 
 ol'. 'I'hen the uuirquessc whispered the king in the car. Then the 
 kin"- be-an ajraine witli them, and told llicni he wold not breakc ther 
 privilodgcs, by writing, but sayil lie wold commend an other to 
 them, who as he was informed was a verye honest man, and a verye 
 good lawyer, on rar. Ilcathe, and hoped that his word and com- 
 mendation shold make his speed the better, and expected that they 
 shold regard his request to them, as they wold hope for him to respect 
 ther request to him. They gave his majestic great thankes, and toldc 
 him they wold acquaynt their companye withe his majesties desire, 
 and so departed. 
 
 This lloREUT IIeatiie was the marqueses creature, and joyned 
 in patent withe Shute for the receaving of the profits of the King's 
 Benche office for the use of the marquesse, a man to well acquaynted 
 withe the Scotts in the bedchamber, and a great agent in new suites 
 and projects for greedy courtcours. The cityc wear straightc 
 informed of the man. They distasted him. I followed my suit 
 upon fair termes, of their freedom and myne owne, and had a sure 
 major part. They proceed to a new election. It was perceaved 
 that tlic king's commendation wold not prevail. The morning, as 
 they wear togeathcr in Guildhalle, sir Lyonell Cranfelld came into 
 ther court of aldermen withe a message from the king, in a manner 
 cliarging them to chuse mr. Heathe, and no other, and that if they 
 did not chuse him they shold forbear to proceed until they had given 
 his majestic reasons of their refusall. Ileerupon the counsell brake up, 
 and they dispatched a committee of seven aldermen to the king, to 
 desire him to withdraw^ his pressure, anil to leave them to a free 
 election. 
 
 He gave them a milde answear, but told them, if they neglected 
 him he wold neglect them, and that they shold not look for grace 
 and favour at his handes, if they did not regard what he requested 
 at their hands, still pressed them for mr. Ileathe, and bad them go 
 to their election. The aldermen desired t(j know his pleasure,
 
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 wlictlicr he wokl not give them leave to liuvc a free election ; he 
 answered, I,* but still pressed his commendation, whiche he expected 
 they sholdc regard. His majestic was askud il" ther wear any ho 
 wold bar from tlic place; he confessc<l but on, and that was mr. 
 Thomas Crew, and spare him, and take any other in the kingdom, 
 but still withe an item of his expecting their satisfying his request; 
 and so they departed. 
 
 Against the time of the next election they understood all this was 
 likely to be in vayne, for ther wear false bretheren among the 
 aldermen. The principal or only on that was thoughte to deal so 
 was sir Thomas Low, an ancient alderman that had been maior. It 
 was discovered that for any thing done yet, 1 wolde be the man, and 
 mr. Ileathc be refused ; thcrfore, to make all sure, the lord chancclor 
 sent for divers aldermen, and dealt withe them; the king sent for 
 the lord maior to the court, and had private specche withe him, and 
 Jolui Parker, the nighte before, came to divers of the aldcrrncn in the 
 king's name, as sent by his majesty, acquaynting them that his 
 majesties expressc ])lcasurc was, mr. Heathe sliold be recorder, and 
 I, by name, shold not be, and gave sum reasons, as if ther had been a 
 remembrance of my not pleasing the king in parliament. Deliver- 
 ing this message to sir William Cokayne, that knew him not, and 
 understood of him he was secretarye to the marquesse, he asked him 
 whether he wear sent by the king or by the marquesse ; he answered 
 him, from the king himself, and he wold not for his hcd say so if it 
 wear not true. 
 
 I was presently acquuyntod withe this, and that the message was 
 done to most of the principall aldermen and my best frendcs, and it 
 was in that manner that 1 thoughte it not lit to continue my com- 
 petition, and therfore, by the advise (jf my frendcs, gave order to sir 
 William Cokayne to renounce my competition at sutche time as he 
 saw cawse. The next day they went to election. it was under- 
 stood by my frendcs how to make it sure for Heathe. A bar was 
 
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 68 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 put in agaiast inc; they tlicrCorc tlioughtc upon a course to obey in 
 not electing me, and yet to put hy Ileathe, and that was by putting 
 Mil. "Walter into election, who was so famous and Avorthyc that 
 the voyces wear likely to go for him, if it mightc appear he wold 
 accept of it, for he had before openly affirmed he wold not liavc it, 
 I, when I perceaved I mighte not have it, gave out I knew he wold 
 take it if he wear chosen, thoughe he wold not sue for [it]; and 
 I had reason to think so by sum of his frendes. This plot 
 being layd, the election was begun in full court of the lord niaior 
 and twenty-four aldermen. Four wear to be put in election. I was 
 first named by sum that knew not anything to the contrarye. They 
 that knew it began to make a pawse that seemed strange, bycaus 
 they wear my frendes, as namely sir Thomas Bennet and other. 
 The matter began to breake out, and sum altercation was likely to 
 ensuy, for thear wear those that wolde have gone thoroughe withe 
 it, and taken no notice of bar against me. But, to quiet all, sir 
 U illiam Cokayne stood up and signifyed unto them, that I ac- 
 commptcd myself verye mutche beholding to them for thear loves, 
 but for sum reasons I was resolved to forbear to be put in election. 
 They knew he was my principall frend, and did not doubt of his 
 warrant to renounce, and toke it that I had good reason to do so, 
 otherwise I wold not reject thear goodwills. IMutche was spoken on 
 my behalf, and more muttered of the course taken against me, and 
 so an end of my busincsse. 
 
 They bare no goodwill, as it sccmetlie, to mr. Ileathe, in the 
 election, for of the twenty-five tliat wear thear eleven gave thear 
 voyces to mr. "Walter, and on, that was sir John Garret, openly 
 professed against that course held, and that he had been at the 
 chusing of ten recorders and never knew sutche proceeding, and 
 seeing I did not, nor mighte not, stand to have his voyce, he wold 
 not give it to any other, and so gave no voyce. Thear wear fowr 
 put in election, as the manner is, but two of them only had voyces 
 the other wear cyphers ; rar. "Walter, the prince's attorney, sir Thomas 
 Ireland of Graycs In, and mr. Iledlye of Grayes In. "When all was
 
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 done my frcndcs the juJ^a'S made mcrye withe me, and tolde me, I !* 
 they herd I went not so far as mr. Shute, to be nonsuit, but when 
 I saw it miglite not be, tokc out my record. 
 
 In this two good qualityes of the time wear practised; the on, I 
 was barred from that by highe hand whiche by tlie libertyc of a 
 subject was lawliill for me to ask, and I was sure by a fair course to 
 have obteyncd, and this as a revenge for doing my duty in parlia- 
 ment wlien time was. Tlie otlier, that whiche is thear owne they 
 mightc sell, none Avolde expect the contrarye, but in this they 
 wolde sell that Avhiche was the free voyce of others, for thcar is 
 little doubt but that mr. Ileathe must pay the 1 ,500^. ; I understand 
 sir Lyonell Cranfcild meanethe not to pay it himself, thoughe he 
 layd it out, and sir Edward Zouche hathc payd it to sir Thomas 
 Vavasor, and 1,500/. more, and is in his office of marshall of the 
 house. My frcnds merely tell me, I am Reminiscor thoughe not 
 recorder, and that mr. Thomas Crew was Memini. 
 
 This vacation, between Michaelmas term and Christmas 1618, the 
 lord chancclor, at the instance of the marquesse of Buckingham, 
 steward of the liberties of AVestminster and st. Martin's le Grand, 
 for the dean and chapter of Westminster, granted a speciall commis- 
 sion of the peace for those liberties, in whiche T was of the quorum, 
 withe the dean and other of their frcndcs. 
 
 This monethc of December, about on week before Christmas, dyed 
 my olde frend .aiii. Henry Stirrell, that was appoynted to be 
 reader of the jMiddle Temple at Lent following. He and I wear of 
 on time, and his wife was my wife's kinscwoman. Her mother 
 was sister to Robert Drewrye, father of olde sir Henryc Drewrye. 
 
 This vacation, between Michaelmas term and Christmas, a speciall 
 commission of the peace was granted to the citye of Westminster by 
 the lord chancelor, at the instance and request of the lord marquesse 
 of Buckingham, hIghe steward of the sayd citye and libertyc. It 
 was dated 23 Dee. 1618, 16 Jacobi, [and] extended to st. Martin's 
 le Grand as well as Westminster. I was made deput\-e custos rotulo- 
 
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 70 LIIIEU FAMELICUS. 
 
 rum to hiiu in bothc liberties, by his writing under his hand and 
 seal, dated 12 January, 1618. The first session of the peace was 
 kept 19 January, 1618, at whiche time I, as recorder, gave the charge, 
 and sat next the dean, wlio sate in the middle. 
 
 Presently after Christmas, by the same meanes, was a commission 
 of nusanccs granted for the libcrtye of Westminster. 
 
 By the untimely deathc of mr. Stirrell, qui ohiit hi Decemb. 
 1618, mr. William Rives, who was appoynted to read in summer, 
 was called to read the next Lent, and I was called up to the bcnchc 
 in Hillary term, and appoynted to read in summer next, fjuncc, 2" 
 Au(jtisti, 1619. 
 
 I left the circuit at Bridgcnorthc, and went not to StaiTord, and so 
 came to London, upon Saturday 24 JuHj,to prepare my self toward 
 my reading; and that week, according to the custom, 1 kept commons 
 in my lodging, and allowed speciall achates of myne owne. 
 
 Venison given to my reading, and the fees. 
 
 In the term, for the benche table. 
 
 Bucks. 
 
 2 Junij, mr. chaucelor of the duchyc, 1 buck, 13*. 
 
 5 Junij, mr. Whitton, IP. 
 
 9 Junij, mr. Walter Py, sans fee. 
 
 12 Junij, sir William Udal, 13^ 
 
 Eodcm, mr. Henry liulstrode, 11' 6''. 
 
 Stag. 
 30 Julij, mr. Henry Bulstrode, a stag, 22% 
 At the reading. 
 Bucks by euerye on of these, and my fees. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Read, 2' G''. The bishop of Lincoln, 12^ 6''. 
 
 Mr. Walter Tye, \5\ Sir John Dormer, \2\ 0''. 
 
 Sir Richard Lovelace, 13'. Mr. Thomas Bramston, 3\ 
 
 Chancclor of duchy, 12". Mr. Curl, 2". 
 
 Mr. Thomas Trist, 12'. Sir Henry Britten, 10\ 
 
 Sir Richard More, 11-. Sir William Borlas, 15-.
 
 LTRETl FAMF-LTOUfl. 
 
 71 
 
 Mr. Robert Pyc, 19«. 
 
 Sir John Garret, 13». 
 
 Sir William Pyt, 12- C. 
 
 Air. Uicliard Lane, 11". 
 
 Cornwel Ducat., 13* C*". 
 
 Sir .lolin Sams, 12" 6''. 
 
 Sir John Tyrrell, 13". 
 
 Sir Robert Vernon, 13* G'". 
 
 Justice Croke, 13". 
 
 l^Ir, Robert TanfeiUl, 10-. 
 
 Bishop of Lincolne, 13" G''. 
 
 Sir IJaptist Ilikkcs, 13". 
 
 Mr. John Iloskins, 13'. G-^. 
 
 Mr. Hughe Holland, 14^ 
 
 Sergeant Frauncis More, 13» G''. 
 
 The erl of Rridgewatcr, 14'" G'' 
 
 Sir George Rivers, 14' G''. 
 
 Sir Henry Browne, 13*. 
 
 Mr. sollicitor, 13". G''. 
 
 Mr. Clifton, 13". G-' 
 
 Mr. Rowlyc Ward, 13'. G''. 
 
 Sir Edward Sackvild, 7". 
 
 Sir George Wrighto, .'>*. 
 
 Sir John Wolstenholm, 12» G''. 
 
 Mr. Cholmley, 10». 
 
 Sir Edward Zouche, a side of stag, 3" 
 
 The erl of Northampton, 15" 9''. 
 
 Mr. Nicolas Overburye, lo' !)''. 
 
 Sir Richard Titcheborn, 8» (!''. 
 
 Mr. Hughe May, 12". G''. 
 
 Sir Richard Beaumont, 13" G'. 
 
 Cornwel Ducat., 1 1-. 
 
 Mr. John Bridgcman, 13". 
 
 Sir Jului Walter, sans fee. 
 
 Raphe Ratlif, a warrant. 
 
 The countesse of Bedford, 12" G"*. 
 
 Sir William Kiligrew, 13" G''. 
 
 Sir Frauncis Egiock, 12''. 
 
 The lady Gostwlck, 3" G-'. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wilson, 1.3" G''. 
 
 Mr. Nicol. Hyde, 13' G"". 
 
 The countesse of Be<lford, 12" G''. 
 
 Sir John Towncsend, nihill. 
 
 Mr. Andrew Windsor, G". 
 
 Sir Thomas Read, 12". 
 
 Sir William Herrick, 8". 
 
 Sir Thomas Wilson, G". 
 
 Sir Oliver Cromwell, 11". 
 
 Thomas Whitelocke, 5". 
 
 Oliver Ashcond), 12' G-i. 
 
 Sir Henry Croke, 10' G'K 
 
 Sir AVilliam Bulstrode, 2\ 
 
 Mr. Richard Daston, 13". 
 
 Mr. Farkes, 10". 
 
 Sir Thomas Watsonn, 13-. 
 
 Sir William Twisden, 14*. 
 
 ]\lr. Edward Turner, 12". 
 
 Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, a warrant. 
 
 Mr. Edward Lason, 14'. 
 
 Sir Henry Stonor, 8" G**. 
 
 ISlr. Giles Browne, 12" G''. 
 
 Sir Henry Compton, 13" G''. 
 
 Mr. Hughe May, a warrant. 
 
 Mr. Frauncis Winnebanck, a warrant. 
 
 He an other warrant. 
 
 Sir Fulk (Jrevill, a warrant. 
 
 Sccreatarye Calvert, a warrant. 
 
 Given me in all, buckes .s.3, on stag, and a side. 
 Rewardes of my venison . . £41 1.js. 0)1.
 
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 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 Vaiiio. Other giftes. 
 
 1' IG" 8''. My brother Henry Bulstrode, 4 swans . . 3'. 
 
 13*4''. Mr. Jolin Whitelock, a sugar loaf, reward . . nihil. 
 
 6' SJ. Baron Sotherton, a martchepayne * . . . 2«. G**. 
 
 133 4''. Robert Lea, a sugar loaf, reward . . . 1". 
 
 40*. Sir AVilliam Cockayne, a firkin and kog of sturgeon 
 
 13' 4''. My brother Richard, a keg 
 
 26" S-i. My cosen Richard Whitelocke, a lirkin 
 
 1 3* 4''. Mr. Batson, a keg of sturgeon . . . 2«. 
 
 13* 4''. My cosen Ashcomb, a keg .... 12''. 
 
 26' 8''. Mr. Thorp, two sugar loafes . . . 2«. 
 
 13' 4''. Mrs. Jenkinson, on sugar loaf 
 
 4110*. Sir John Wolstenholme, a hogshed of wyne . 5«. 
 
 30*. IVIr. Palmer, a tierce 
 
 13* 4''. Blunt and Sraalewood, a sugar loaf 
 
 26* S"!. Mr. Wormleighton, two sugar loaves . . 2* 6''. 
 
 3' 10*. St. Dunstan's, a rundlet of sak and 2 sukar loafes. . 2». 
 
 34*. Mr. Litton, 12 puitsf and 2 phesants . . 3'. 
 
 G* S*". Mr. Cliambers, a marthepayne ... 2*. 
 
 13*4''. Mr. Dudsuu, a keg of sturgeon ... 2'. 
 
 40*. Mr. Pawl Croke, 3 sugar loaves . . . 2». 
 
 24*8''. My cosen Ashcomb, 2 phesants and 4 partriches . 12''. 
 
 3' 4*. The ladye More, 6 capons, 12 partriches, 12(piaylcs, 
 
 5 trouts ..... 7'. 
 
 6* 8''. Mr. Dogget, a marthepayne . . . 12*'. 
 
 Sir William Herrick, suunner fruit . . . 12'i. 
 
 4' 10*. The Middle Temple, a hogshed of wyne 
 
 13*4''. Mr. Newberye, 8 partriches . . . . 12''. 
 
 13* 4''. Mr. Knighte, a sugar loafe .... 12''. 
 
 40*. Mr. Ford, a freshe samon 
 
 6' S''. Mr. Dogget, a marthepayne 
 
 40' 0* 0''.[?] Rewardes given 
 
 42«. 
 
 • Pastn', or biscuit, of almonds and sugar, on a bottom of wafers, 
 t Puits or pewits.
 
 LIREU FAMELICUS. 
 
 73 
 
 Gilles ill money. 
 My luiil of Duiliaiu 
 Eton College 
 Mr. George Crokc 
 Sir Richard More 
 Merton College 
 St. John College 
 l\Iy mother in law 
 The house for an udmiltance 
 My lord of Rochester 
 Mr. Hoskins 
 A(iuila Weekes 
 Mr. Edw. Smithc 
 Mr. Norris 
 Mr. Rives 
 
 Mr. attorney gencrall 
 ^Ir. Shcepwashe 
 Dr. Newall . 
 Giftes otherwise, as p. 72. 
 
 Rcwai'dcs for 
 To mv. attorney's man 
 To Eton College servant 
 Gates, as by the billes appeer 
 Wync (beside given), 1 hogshead of 
 of 18 gallons, of canaryc of 17 g 
 Of Renishe on gallon 
 Apparell 
 Livei'yes 
 
 Charges aliter, as Anthonycs bill 1 9 
 Rewardes ut supra 
 Rewards for venison 
 Charles, bill for horses ct simil. 19 
 Charges out of Rich, bill — Aug. 
 Losse in pewter 
 
 Frovisious given me 
 
 Expensa^ 
 
 Dona 
 
 Spent de claro 
 CAMD. SOC. 
 
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 claret, 1 rundlet of sack 
 aliens, with the charges 
 
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 7 i I.IBER FAMELICU8. 
 
 Upon Sum lay the 1 ol' Aug. J procured the dean ol' Westminster * 
 to preaclie withe up. 1 went to churchc everye morning and 
 evening the wliole reading, accompanycd withe sutclie benchers, 
 cubberdmcn, and senior barristers as woldc goe withe me. 1 red 
 everye JMunday, Wednesday, and Fryday, the two first weekes in 
 August. U]5on those dayes on whiche I red thcar was a breakfast 
 in tlie parliament cliamber, nt^t on tlie other. 
 
 Upon Munday, the first day, after breakfast, I went to the cubberd? 
 and thear, before all the house, tokc the othe of supreamacy, then 
 went to my place, the northe end of the long table, whcar mr. Palmer, 
 a Londoner born, my sublector, red my statute, 21 Henry VIII. ca. 
 13. After whiche I began, first made a speeche, and then went to 
 the statute, proposed my divisions, and put upon the division of that 
 day ten cases, of whiche the puisne cubberd man chose on, and began 
 p)'0 and so contra, altematim. Two benchers appoynted to attend 
 the reading wear mr. Ford and mr. Rives, but nether of them came. 
 ]\Ir. Sturly and mr. Hudson wear withe me, altematim^ on the on 
 day the other the other day. 
 
 In the end of Trinity term, according to the order of the house, I 
 went to all the judges of our house, accompanycd withe three of the 
 ancient benchers, and made them acquayntcd withe my statute; so 
 I did the benchers in towne, sum two or three dayes before my 
 reading, and sent luito them to have their companye. jNIy statute 
 was published at the benclie table upon Sunday after supper, the 
 nightc before my reading began. The first Fryday after the reading 
 began 1 and sum of the ancients went to Tuttlc f and played at 
 bowles, according to the ancient custom, and thcr the dean of West- 
 minster met \is, and played withe us. 
 
 I ended the Fryday senighte after I began. Presently after 
 service, 1 and the benchers went to the cubberd, whear I gave them 
 thankes by a speeche, and then was answered by the senior bencher; 
 then I went to my place, and red my division, and put my cases; 
 then the two puisnes spoke to a case. I toke it of them, went 
 
 * Uobert Touiison, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Salisbuiy. f Totliill fields:''
 
 LinER FAMELTCUS. 75 
 
 thoiouglie tho case, brcefly opening the poynts only, whiclic being 
 clone, I uttered my conccito?; after wliicho the tlilrd nuin bi-^'an an 
 other case, but after ho had ])ut it, and before he began to argue it, 
 the senior bencher interrupted hiui, and tohle me of that case they 
 wold expect my opinion the next term, and so we rose, and went to 
 dinner in the parliament chamber. That nightc, half a skore of 
 the gentlemen, of whiche my underlector was on, and two of my 
 stewards that wear under the bar, mr. Ticheborn sun and heir to 
 sir Walter Ticheborn and mr. liayncsford sun and heir to sir Henry 
 Rayncsford, mr. Iloskins, mr. Borlasc, came withe me to Windsor, 
 wheer I layd in a buck, and thear they bore my charges, and the 
 next day I came home, and sume of them witlic me, and stayd untill 
 Munday, and then went back. 
 
 My two stewards of the bar wear mr. Ward and mr. Estmond. 
 
 I sat bare when I red, but double readers sit covered; yet toke 
 place at all other times, and at the table, of all that came to me. 
 Thear red in Lincolues In, mr. Hindes, my ancient, in the inner 
 house, mr. Ileathe, my puisne, recorder of London, and in Graycs 
 In, mr. Jones, my puisne, common sergeant of London. I had 
 gesste in my reading the master of wardes,* the master of the rolles,t 
 the sollicitor, J sergeant Davis, the king's sergeant beer and in Ireland, 
 the king's attorney,§ the dean of Westminster, and divers knightes 
 and men of good qualitye. At the feast I had the embassadour of 
 the Low Countryes,! the archbishop of Cantcrburye,1f the privie seal,** 
 thcarchbishopof Spalata,tt the bishops of London,|$ Rochester, §§ and 
 Llaiuluir,|||| nominated to Chichester, the lord Norris,t^ the master 
 of the wardes, the dean of Westminster, and divers knightes and 
 gentlemen, and at the feast I admitted the archbishop of Spalata, 
 
 * Sir Lionel CranHclil, as to whom sec y. 76. + Sir Julius Ciesar. 
 
 J Sir Thoma.s Coventry. § Sir Henry Yclverton. 
 
 II Sir Albertus Joaeliimi. H Arelihishop Abbot, 1(511-1033. 
 
 •• Edward earl of Worcester, 1589-1628. ft Marc Antonio Jo Doniinia. 
 
 Xt Uishui) KiiiK, 1»J11-1(J'21. §§ Uisliop Buckeridgc, 1CHJ.1(52S. 
 
 nil nishop Carleton, of Llandatf l(jl7-l(ilil, of Chielie.ster l(Jlit-H>2S. 
 11^ Krancis lonl Norris, and afterwards earl of Berkshire, l()'n-Ui2U.
 
 76 i,nn:u famklicus. 
 
 tlie iloan of Windsor, ami iiiat^tcr ol' the Siivoy,* and sir Ilcnryc 
 Foliot, a great sohliour of Ireland. The feast was <>n Tuesday the 
 10 of August. 
 
 This reading I admitted into the house my only sun Bulstrode 
 WiiiTKLOCKE, being 14 years of age 3 dayes before. 
 
 In Michaelmas term 1619, Rowland Searchefeild, dr. in divinity, 
 lately made bishop of Bristoll, who was fellow of st. John's in Oxon 
 and my tutor when I was chosen scholler thear, gave mc an annuityc 
 of-lOit. tlic year for my life, to be of counscll withe him. The 
 patent is dated . 
 
 Tliis term Richard Okely, that had served mc a clerk ten yearcs,t 
 went into commons in the Temple to studye: he was then my 
 deputy courtkeeper, and clerk of tlie peace for Westminster. 
 
 This term WlLi-iA^r Rkevks, that red last before me, was knighted 
 and went attorney generall into Ireland, in the romo of sir John 
 Davis, to wliome he gave 950^. for his gudwill, and a large gratuity 
 besides in court. 
 
 Upon Sunday the 23 of January, 1619, sn: Joiix Cuoke, my 
 wife's nnckle by her mother, on of the justices of the King's Benche, 
 dyed at his house in IL^lborn. lie was full 65 yeares of age upon 
 the 15 of the same monethe. He was a vertuous and religious man, 
 vcrye kinde and affable to all lawyers that practised before him, and 
 all suitors that had to do withe him. Justice AVinche Jcame into 
 the circuit in his place, and sergeant Davis went into tlic northe in 
 his place, as justice of assize. 
 
 My veryc worthy frend sir Lyonell Cram kild, master of the 
 wardes, was made a privie counselor Michaelmas term 1619. ITc 
 was the only man imployed against me by manjucsse Buckingham 
 to put me from the rccordership of London, and yet ever sithcncc 
 hathe shewed himself my veryc honorable and worthyc frend, in 
 
 • Tlie archbLnliop of .Spalato was both dean of Win<lsor ami ma.ttcr of llio Savoy, 
 t Foot-note liy the writer. — Conic to me Trinity 1609. 
 
 X Humphrey Winch, judge of the Common PIcasT Nov. 1011—4 \\h. li]2i.r<. Foss's 
 Judges, vi. '2i>l.
 
 I.inKR FAMELICU8. 77 
 
 hovrin-^ iiic in coiut bcfuio others. This gentleiiuin was sun of a 
 citi/cn, b<jru in London, was a marchant, and free of tlie mercers, 
 and came into tlie notice of the kinfj by shewing diligence and 
 circumspection in the case of liis profit, t<j inform him of deceipts 
 done to liiin in the profits due by his customcs, and was so well liko<l 
 by him for liis faythe and trustines.se, that he [was] imployed mutchc 
 in these courses. Ho was controller of the custom house, then 
 master of tlic requests, honoins caitsd, then master of the wardrop, 
 after master of the war<les, cotnmodi causa. 
 
 \ote. — I found a note of myne owne taken by the relation of 
 justice Williams and justice Yelverton unto me, that Yelvcrton red 
 in (fray's In, 16" Klizabeth, and Williams was not called to the bar 
 untill 18" Elizabeth, yet did ride justices of assize togeather. 
 
 Sir Henry Savill was made provost of Eaton at Whitsuntide, 
 l.")90, being then warden of Merton College in Oxon. He was then 
 47 year olde, wanting to st. Andrew's tide after. He tolde me, that 
 (jueen Elizabeth made dr. Bikly, wanlen of Merton College, bishop 
 of Chichester, to make him warden thear, and docter Day, provost of 
 ICton and dean of Windsor, bishop of Winchester, to make him 
 provost thear. 
 
 My loving frend and ancient collegue Di:. William Lawd, 
 sumtime fellow of st. John's College in Oxon withe me, and now 
 dean of Glocester, and president ol' st. John's, and archdeacon of 
 Huntington, tolde me, 7 November, 1619, that he was then 46 year 
 olde. 
 
 Myne ancient actjuayutance doCTKU .Ions 11(.)\\S(>\, sumtime of 
 Christchurchc in Oxon, and now bishop of Oxon, upon the 22 April, 
 1620, at his house at Brightewell, whear he is parson, did give me 
 a p:itent of 4()5. per annum for my Vii'o, pro roticUio impciiso ct impen- 
 cndo, and 20.'*. in hand for our ladye day i>ayment past. The 
 patent was dated i) Novenilur 1619, f.r it was then engroced at his 
 request. 
 
 Upon the 18 of Juno 1620, I received from William erlt>f North- 
 ampton, president of the i-oun.>:ell within the principality nnd marches
 
 78 LinER FAMELICUS. 
 
 of Wales, a warrant uivltM' liis majesties htmd, for a sergeant's 
 writ, in luvc verba. 
 
 Jamks U. 
 
 James, by the grace of God, of Enylaiul, Scotlund, Fraunce, and Ireland, 
 defender of the faythc &c. To our rightc trustye and welbeloved counselor 
 Frauncls lord Verulam, lord chancelor of England, greeting. We will and 
 command yow, that, npon the sightc hoerof, and by virtue and authoritye of 
 the same, yec direct forthe, under our great seal of England, on writ according 
 to the tenor, form, or cfToct heerafter ensuying: — "Jacobus, Dei gratia, 
 Angliae, Scotia;, Francise, et Ilibernia? rex, fidei defensor, &c., dilecto et fideli 
 nostro Jacobo Whitelocke de medio templo London, armigero,- salutem. Quia, 
 de avisamento concilii nostri, ordinavimus vos ad statum et gradum ser- 
 vientis ad legem, in (juindena sanctic Trinitatis prox. futur. susceptur. Vobis 
 mandamus firmiter injungcndo quod vos ad statum et gradum predictum ad 
 ilium diem in forma predicta suscipiend. ordinetis et pra?pareti8. Et hoc sub 
 poena mille libraruni nullatenus omittatis. Teste," &c. 
 
 Upon the same 18 of June, I reccaved from my lord of North- 
 ampton an other warrant to mr. sollicitor, under my lord of Buck- 
 ingham's hand, in these wordes: — 
 
 Mb. Sollicitor, 
 Forasmutche as it is his majesties plesvire that James Whitelocke of the 
 Middle Temple, London, esq., shall have the office of justice of Chester, 
 and sutche other offices as sir Thomas Chamberleyne now holdethc. These 
 ar to pray yow to cawse bills to be made for his majesties signature for the 
 sayd offices, in sutche manner and form as the sayd sir Thomas Chamberleyne 
 now holdethe the same; and this his majesties pleasure signifyed unto me 
 shall be your warrant for the same. Dated the 14 day of June, 1620. 
 
 G. Buckingham. 
 
 This writ was sealed upon Munday the 19 of June,* and upon my 
 reccaving of it, according to the ancient order of the house, I was 
 set uppermost at the benche table. 
 
 I did appeer in chancerye upon st. Peter's day ;t I cam to the bar 
 when my lord called for me, untill then I leaned at the side bar 
 * Note by tlie writer— Tare 19 Junii, 18 Jacohi. t June 29.
 
 LIBEIl FAMELICUH. 79 
 
 witlic two of our readers. 'I'hc tipstafT attended me up to the bar. 
 Then I made my cong(^, and presented tlic writ, praying my appar- 
 ancc to be recorded. The clerk of tlic petit bafj toke tlie writ. 
 Then my lord chancellor began hi.s spceche to nie, to this ell'cct: — 
 
 Mr. Whiti.ockk, 
 
 The king's most excellent niajestie lieing well informed of your sufllciencyc, 
 hathe, out of his favour, jrrownded upon your merit, well impressed by good 
 and due information, called yow now to the state and degree of a Serjeant 
 at law, hut withe an intention not to stay yow thear, hut to rayse yow 
 higher, to serve him as rheef justice of Chester, in the place of sir Thomas 
 Chamherleync, whome he dothe resolve to rail home to be his judge beer in 
 the King's Henche. Yow ar the more bound to the king by how mutchc the 
 more this time dothe llorishc withe able and Icrned men, whcrof this age is full. 
 
 That I shall say to yow shall be in few words, and in two kindes. I will 
 not speak at all to matter of pleading, for yow ar not to plead meerly, but 
 your degree of .serjeant is a step to your other place. 
 
 First, therefore, I will speake of the dutye of a judge in generall, and then 
 of the proprieties therof applied in particuler to the place yow ar to go to. 
 
 For the dutye of a judge in generall, it is a common place oft spoken of. 
 The grownd of all is the science and knoledge of the common law, the 
 statutes of the kingdom, arul the customes of the realm, according to whiehe 
 yow ar to deal in this your place Yow ar well red in the law, and well seen 
 in tu'chivis roj^ni. Yow ar a man diligent and expert in the records of the 
 kingdom, whiehe is a great supplement and lighte to the law. Yet now keep 
 no holiday, no, not in studyc, nor go from your bookes to your brain, but 
 continue then your studye as well as now, when yow ar a sergeant and prac- 
 tiscr. lie patient in heering of eawses, for what is it the Ijetter if a judge be 
 lerned in generall and in t/icsi he be not attentive to heer the eawses before 
 him? Have patience, therfore. In heering, make no catching hecriugs. 
 Have a slow pace ; judges nuike no liast. Keep your hands clean, and the 
 hands of your serv.ants that ar about yow. Keep them in aw, that they dare not 
 move yow in things unfit. Fly all bribery and corruption, and preserve your 
 integrity, not respecting any in course of justice, lor what avaylethe it, if yow 
 shold be incorrupt, yet shold be partiall, or a respecter of jierj-ons? As Solo- 
 mon say the, to have respect of persons is nnlgtiod, for upeece of l)red that man 
 will trans"resse ; as who shold say, bribes eiim but now and then, l)ut if a man 
 bo all'eetionate, or a time or turn server, that will cum every day. Lastly, 1 
 wold have yow take care that you be not overawed. Fear no man's face ; be 
 stout and couragious iu eawses of justice. Hut whcu 1 say this to yow, 1 mean
 
 80 l.ir.KU FAIMKLICUS. 
 
 yuw blioKl be blioii-j; liarlcd, ami not i^troiiy liL-a»k(l. 1 passe irom tlie geiierall 
 dutyesofii judge, bycaus it is evcrye day spoken of, to the things that concern 
 the proprieties of your place, in whichc yow have two respects: on as judge 
 of Chester, an other as having a principall place in matters of advice in coun- 
 sell of state. In regard of the first, keei) good quarter withe AVestniinster 
 JKille, and make no new clashes[?] of reviving olde sores, but study well your in- 
 structions, and be sure yow exceed them not; then sliall I be ready to stretch 
 forth my hand and arm to help yow, clayme it at my hand when yow will. 
 
 Yow ar a great judge in a provinciall counsell, and what ar they ordeyned 
 for ? First, for the ease of the subject, that subjects shold at lesse charge have 
 law ; secondly, bycaus great men sholdc not oppresse the poor and hurry them 
 up to Westminster halle. First, thcrfore, let thcr be an ease of charge, fijr if 
 the courtes thear shall poll and multiply charge upon the people, then that 
 whiche was ordened for ease of charg will torn to a surcharge. Secondly, 
 look to suppresse the powr of sutche gentlemen in the countrye that seek to 
 oppresse and suppresse thcr poor neighboures, for it is no great ill in a judge 
 (thoughe I have herd it hathe been layd to sum men's charge) that in cawses 
 before them the poor have advantage against the ritche. " If it be so, it is an 
 error on the best side. Lastly, ray advice is that yow keep a good corre- 
 spondeucye withe the lord president, under whome, in a manner, yow serve, 
 for whiche I will say unto yow, as I did unto sir William Johnes, "Be not to 
 servil nor to severe." I mighte have spoken al this in a few wordes, in the 
 example of on man, your predecessor, who for religion, for lerning, for stout- 
 nesse in course of justice, for watchfulnesse over the peace of the people, anj 
 for relation of matters of state to the counsell heer, I have not knoweu (no 
 disprayse to any) a better servant to the king in his place ; follow him. And 
 so, for this time, I shall wishe you all wellfare. 
 
 To that speeche I made this answear: — 
 
 May it please your lordship. It is observed that the whole course of life of a 
 professor of the law is devided into three passages. The first, is his time of 
 study, and that is, tirs longa et iempus breve. The second, his time of practise, 
 and that is, the fruit of his studye. The third, his time of service to his coun- 
 trye, and that is, the discharge of his civill dutye to the commonwealthc in 
 sutche place as he shall be called unto. So he begins philosophns in getting 
 knoledge, goethe on ceconomus in getting meanes of livelihood, ends politiciis in 
 serving his countrye. 
 
 To tfhe first of these I came late, and so my knoledge the weaker, yet it was 
 the saying of a good proficient in the law, ncro vcni, sed citius expediam. 
 
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 take, whiclie is, the character of my profession must be layd aside, ami so my 
 mcuiu's will l)c the shorter, for I understand by your lordship it is the kinjj's 
 pleasure I shall prepare myself to the third passa^^e, by whiche untimely 
 adventure upon so great a service I shall be the lesse able to discharge my 
 dutye therin. I doe withe all reverence apply myself to his majesties com- 
 mand, and do acknoledge that regard of private gayne oughte not to hold any 
 man back from publifjue service. I take those to be incompatible respects. It 
 was the direction of Christ to the yong man in the gospell, .S't vis esse perfedm, 
 vcnde qucc fiabcs, da ptiiiperibus, et scqiiere me. Surely, my lord, I hold an analogic 
 withe that rule is so far to be observed Ijy us, that upon his majesties command 
 we must leave ourselves, our clyents, our practise, and all respect of gain, and 
 follow him and his service. 
 
 This is dutye, but this dothe not salve those disabilityes whiche cannot be but 
 manye in me, that have spent my whole time in a private course, and am a 
 stranger to the misteryes of government. 
 
 For ray help lieerin, your lordship hathe now, by your comments and in- 
 structions, given me a perfect modcll, and rule of my dutye, and I shall con- 
 tinue an humble suitor to your lordship, that prudently steeres under a skillful 
 master, that yow will be pleased to afford me these two supports in my place of 
 service ; direction what I am to do ; good construction of that whiche I shall do : 
 and by these helps I hope to repair those weaknesses whiche ar the more 
 blemished by the glorye of my worthye predecessor, whose excesses in merit 
 and worthe make my defects the more apparant. 
 
 For thaukfullncsse to his majestye, whose favourcs towards me exceeds the 
 boundes of my apprehension of them, I must falle into a distraction withe 
 myself, as the psalmist did, Quid rctribuam domino 7-egi\ pro omnibus qua relribuit 
 viihi? and my answear shall be, as his, Vota mca rcddam illi in coiuspectu populi 
 ejus. 
 
 My vowes to his majestye, in retribution of his great grace, shall be two, be- 
 fore this great assembly. The on of endeavour, the other of assurance. That 
 of endeavour, that I will do my best to attain to that knoledge and other 
 a])ilityes which ar recjuisit for the place. That of assurance, that in honestye 
 I will not tuiii beliindc the best of those that have gone Ijefore me. 
 
 When I had done my spccche, the clerk of the crownc gave me 
 the rollc of otlics. I was to take the othe of supremacye, aud of 
 allegiance. I red myself the sergeant's othc; he red as followetlie: — 
 
 " Yow shall swear, that well and truly yow shall serve the king's people, as 
 on of the sergeants at law, and yow shall truly counsell them that vou shall lie 
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 roteynod witlic, nftor your cunnin;^. And yow shall not defer, tract, or delay 
 their oawses, willingly, for eoveteis of money, or other thing that may torn to 
 your i)r(>lit, and you shall give due attendance accordingly as God yow help," 
 
 and upon this I was dismissed. 
 
 Upon Tuesday morning following, we assembled all in the Middle 
 Temple hallc, whcar mr. John Lee the tresaurer made aspeeche and 
 gave me 10/. and a purse, as a farewell from the Temple. I did 
 answear him in this manner. 
 
 Mr. thesaurer and the rest of this worthy societyc, I hold it verye unpleas- 
 ing to a sociable disposition to be deprived of the dayly conversation of ancient 
 frends. 
 
 I am likely to be sensible of this, for, thoughe I have found yow all my 
 worthye frends, and assure myself of the continuance of your loves, yet I fear 
 that by my remove I shall misse sum of the effects of it. 
 
 As first, in those whome I may calle my cocetanei, for we began togeathcr 
 in the universitye, came hether togeather, and have lived togeather ever 
 sithence, and our loves and affections have growen up togeather, like vege- 
 tative bodyes. 
 
 Secondly, in those upon whose acquaintance I did fortunately happen at my 
 first cumming hether, and we may be called coUegues, for we have lived 
 togeather ever sithence In participation of studyes, in doing of exercises, in 
 takin"- our deforces, and for 28 yeares, almost compleat, have been coUaterales, 
 and sat on by the others side. 
 
 And, lastlye, in the whole bodye and societye in general, who have alwayes 
 been a cherisher and upholder of my progression in this place, and have shewed 
 ther loves unto me by two pledges ; thear bountiful! gift at my reading, and 
 that now. 
 
 Mr. thesaurer, it wolde be verye uncouthe to me to be cut of from these 
 contentments, and to lighte upon new men and new manners. It is not my 
 meaning so to do. I shall solum inulare nun auimuin, and my remove shall cawse 
 only sej)aration of our bodyes, not a divorce of our mindes. 
 
 Thear be two thinges I shall ernestly endeavour in recompcnce of this your 
 kindenesse. The one is, how to repair the dayly want of your good and kinde 
 companyes, that shall be by inviting yow to make bold withe me in any thing 
 whcarin I may do yow curtesye. The other is, to give yow assurance that 
 whcthersoever, or to what fortune soever, 1 am carycd, I will strayn my power 
 to eciiiall my will to do .ill of yf>w what olliccs of love, frendship, or curtesye 
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 Then they atteiidetl me to Sergeants' In, In Fleet Street, whear, 
 my purtye-colored robe being put upon me, in my chamber, I was 
 conducted into llie halle by the tipstaves, my sicarlet lio<jd, and my 
 coif layd upon it, beyng caryed before me, by my man. 
 
 The two cheef justices sitting bothe upon the Ibrm, I began to 
 my lord Ilobert. "May it please yow, my lord Ilobert,"* and 
 repeated pleadings. When 1 had done that, my lord cheel" justice 
 Mountague made me a short speeche, and then, I kneeling before 
 him, put my coif upon my hed, and my skarlet hood upon ray 
 righte shoulder, and so being invested, rose up and went to the hall, 
 all my men two and two before me, withe the officers of the Common 
 Pleas and the Exchequer, and next before me the warden of the 
 Fleet and usher of the Eschequer. I went withe the white coif 
 only upon my hed, and at my lower elbow, toward the kennell, 
 went on of my men bare-hedded withe my skarlet hood born upon 
 his hands; the whole society of the Middle Temple followed me. 
 At the hall 1 was placed at the stalle righte against the Common 
 Pleas bar; thether the two ancient sergeants came to me, and as they 
 came from the bar they turned, and made co}ig(^ to the court three 
 times; then, on upon the on side and the other upon the other side, 
 led me to the bar, and as I went I and they made low curtesye three 
 times. AVhen I came to the bar I made a low curtesye and repeated 
 my pleadings, and was then, by the appoyntment of the court, placed, 
 and led to my place by the two sergeants, on the northe end of the 
 bar, next to sir William Jones that had been cheef justice of 
 Ireland. When it came to my torn I made my motion, and so 
 went home to Sergeants' In. 
 
 At dynner [1] sat at the table's end in a black robe and skarlet 
 hood, and my coife only upon my hod; thcar dyncd the judfi-es, 
 sergeants, attornies of wards, [and] dutchy, custos brevhiin, and pre- 
 notaryes. 
 
 * Sir Ilcnry Ilobart, chief justice of the Common Plena 27 Nov, 1613 — 20 Dec. 1625. 
 Koss'a Judges, vi. 328.
 
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 £207 6 11[?] 
 
 Memorandum, I made no black robe, nor purple, bycaus I was not 
 to ncd them, but only a partyc-colorcd and a skarlet; the party c- 
 colored, a robe, a hood, and tabard; the skarlet, a robe and hood. 
 
 I rode circuit withe six horses, a sumpter, and fowcr men. 
 
 I rode circuit in summer 1620, serjeant at law, and practised in 
 my partye-coloured robe on Sundayes and holidayes, bothe in the 
 circuit and in the term. My habit was purple, and a skarlet hood. 
 Most of the Serjeants wear of opinion I sholde have practised all the 
 circuit in my purple robe and skarlet hood, and did instance that 
 they did so in the Korthamptonshire circuit the last calle. 
 
 I cave the charge at Wickham sessions 5 October, 1620, 
 
 My two patents, on of Chester and Flint, for my life, the other of 
 Denbifrhe and Mountgomerye, durante beneplacito, wear dated 29 
 October, 1620, but sealed 30 October. 
 
 I waited upon the king at Theobalds 29 October, and toke his 
 directions and charge concerning my places I was to go to ; it was 
 in his bedchamber; thear wear present the prince Charles, the 
 marquesse of Buckingham, the erl of Xorthampton, lord president, 
 and mr. ^Maxwell of the bedchamber. I attended in my skarlet 
 robes, and was knighted thear in the bedchamber. The next day 
 thear was a bill sent me of fees for knightehood, amounting to 
 44/. 17 s. I was sworn at York House upon the last of October 
 1620, to the offices of Chester, Flint, Denbighe, and Mount- 
 
 • The poesy : Ilohor legis decor regis.
 
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 gomery. I dyncJ witli tlie lord chancclor, and it was presently after 
 dinner. 
 
 A question was proposed at Serjeants' In, Fleet Street, whear my 
 place sliolde be at the table, and, upon report of the last president, 
 it was ordered I shold sit next to the puisne judge, and before the 
 kind's Serjeants. But I wold \_sic] told sithence by sir Ilcnrye 
 Towuesend, on of the counscll, that his father, being cheef justice of 
 Chester, toke place next to the cheef baron. 
 
 Upon AVcdnesday, being all hallowd day,* I dined in the j\Iiddle 
 Temple halle, and was the fust at the table. Thear wear present 
 sir John Davis the king's sergeant, that sat against me on the form 
 side, Serjeant Frauncis More knighte, Serjeant Frauncis Ilartye, 
 and Serjeant Frauncis Ashlye knighte, sir Benjamin Rudyerd 
 knighte, surveyor of the court of wardes. The Serjeants sate in 
 skarlet; I ware a gowne of wroughte velvet. 
 
 On Fryday and Saturday after, I did visit the prince, the 
 marqucsse of Buckingham, the erles of Worcester, Pembroke, 
 Arundell, !Montgomerye, the master of the wardes, secretarye Cal- 
 vert, and sir Edward Coke, and all the judges and barons of the 
 eschcquer, and the prince's counscll table. 
 
 On Sunday I bestowed a doe upon the Middle Temple and 
 dyncd withe them. I came forthe of London upon Munday, withe 
 eiidit men in my liverye, a sumpter and a spare hoi-se. Upon 
 Fryday I lodged at Beaudlieu,t in the king's house, enterteyned by 
 the lord president's oflicers. The towne enterteyned my horses, and 
 the bailives and principall burgeses came all up to me to my lodging 
 and thear presented me withe wine. I came on Saturday to Ludlow, 
 whear 1 was enterteyned by the bailives and townes men in ther 
 gownes, withe two orations in Latin, in the market place, and an 
 Enclyshe on at the castle gate, by the schoUers of the towne. 
 
 Upon Sunday, 12 November, the president, counscll, and all 
 counselors receavcd the communion at the chappell of the castle. 
 
 * Nov. 1. t Bcwillov.
 
 86 I.I HER FAMKLICUS. 
 
 Upon Munday morning I was sworn, in this manner: — 
 I and the three counselors went in skarlet, my lord president in 
 his damask gowne of black. When we came first into tlie court the 
 rest sat all downc, and I stood and delivered the king's letters under 
 his signe manucU directed to the president and counsell, signifying 
 my being checf justice of Chester, and his majesties pleasure to have 
 me of the counsell; my lord delivered them to the clerk to read, who 
 did it accordinglye. After the letters red, I kneeled downe and 
 toke my othc ; then rose up, and was placed by my lord upon his 
 righto hand withe a distance between us, as was usuall. After I was 
 sate downe my lord made a speeche to bid me wellcum, towelling the 
 king's choyce, his love to me, and my worthe. I answered him to 
 to this effect. 
 
 My lord, I did not conceave that ether custom or necessitye.woM have put It 
 upon me to have spoken publiqely upon this occation, but, seing your lordship 
 hathe begun, it befits me to follow yow, who must be our guide and leader, not 
 only in ceremonies, but in substances. 
 
 It is not tinknowen unto me how unwillingly the people under this govern- 
 ment parted withe my late predecessor, I think as unwillingly as Jacob parted 
 Benjamin, and they had reason, bothe in respect of thear owne good affections 
 toward him, for I may say of him as was sayd of Germanicus, he was delicia: 
 poprdi* as also in respect of his good offices toward them, concerning whiche I 
 may say, as is in the prophet Isayah,! " He was as a hiding-place from the winde, 
 as a refuge from the tempest, as rivers of water in drye places, and as the 
 shadow of a great rock in a desert land," whiche worthe of his turnes to my 
 disadvantage, for how can it be well pleasing to change from a knowen and 
 certeyn good to that whiche restethe upon future hopes and events, especially 
 in matters of the common wealthe, the change wherof is ever accoumpted 
 hazardable. 
 
 I will repair this withe that whiche I know will content everye man, that is, 
 to follow his steps that did so well, for my better performance whearof I have 
 two good encoragements from your lordship, the on from your wisdom, 
 knoledgc, and experience of the government of this place, confirmed by the 
 practise of many yeares, so I shall be put to no more then to execute withe 
 
 * Note by the writer, — Tacitus, Delicia humani generic. 
 t Cai.. 32, V. 2.
 
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 diligence wliat your lonlship shall inuiluntly ilirect. The other from your good 
 an'ection toward ine, whiche I doubt not will as well shew itself in making a 
 favorable construction of my labors, as it did in desiring my presence heer. 
 
 For my particuler, I have made but this change, to have care whear before I 
 had quiet, whiche is an ill change to me, that am of the opinion of Ecclesiastes, 
 — Mclior est pugilbis aim retjuie, quam plena utracpie tnarnus cum labure el tij/fic- 
 tiuiie aninii* Yet I shall be verye well content withe it, if by doing of my 
 dutye I shall content others, and nothing can be more helpfull to me in that, 
 then that whiche I assure myself of, first, in my bretheren and collegues, that 
 we shall all give our opinions candide, withe out any tenders of affection or 
 private respects ; secondly, in the counselors at the bar, that they will handle 
 their cawses lucide, without culumnye and importunitye, and so all things will 
 concur to the honor of the king and the ease of his pcoph.-. 
 
 My allowance at the counscll is dyct for my self at the president's 
 table, sitting in a chair over against him, and for my chaplain at the 
 steward's table in the hallo, and for eight men in the hallo, whiche 
 dyet I toke accordinglye. 
 
 I did heer and determin in the term, four weekcs, and in four 
 dayes after, 455 cawses, of whiche thear arrose 147 in the countycs 
 of Gloucester, Wigorn, Salop, Hereford, and Monmouthe. Thear 
 did arise 37 out of my owne circuit, the rest out of the 12 shires of 
 Wales. 
 
 I came from Ludlow toward London, to settle all businesses thear, 
 upon Munduy the 11 December, and whoaras justice Chamberleyne 
 and justice Lcwknor had agreed to take 40/. the year for thear 
 ridiiiii: charges, I refused, and according to the instructions toke them 
 per diem; for the clecring of whiche poynt I examined the allow- 
 ances to the cheef justices for rjding charges for 60 yeares, and found 
 that sir John Throkmorton had allowance per diem for fourteen 
 horses and twelve servants, the other sithence for nine servants and 
 twelve horses, that is, ten for him and his servants, one for his 
 sumpter, and a spare horse, and so had sir Kichard Shuttleworthe 
 and sir Kichard Lcwknor, and wear allowed for them and them- 
 
 • Nolo l>y tlio wiittT. — licclesiaslcs, t;i. 4, [vii>i' ti].
 
 88 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 selves 405. per diem, and until sir Ricluird Lcwknor provided him a 
 dwelling within lessc then a dayes journey he had so, but after toke 
 40Z. per annum by composition, for it was clcerly gotten by him. 
 Now, being thoughte reasonable to allow 405. per diem for nine 
 servants and twelve horses 30 yeares past, it was thoughte now 50«. 
 per diem was but proportionable, and so I had allowed for five dayes 
 between Ludlow and London 12/. 10s. 
 
 In September, 1620, 1 receaved from my brother Richard White- 
 locke, resident at Elbing, James his sun, whome he toke from 
 Leopolis,* whear he was taughte grammer by the Jesuits, and sent 
 him to me to bring up hcer and to provide for him, and according 
 to his request, I sent him to Oxon., to Magdalen halle, under the 
 government of dr. Wilkinson, principall thear, and under the tutor- 
 adf^e of mr. Ramsden; he was born in Elbing in February, 1601. 
 
 The term began at Ludlow, 19 January, 1620, in Avhiche thear 
 wear herd 209 cawses; three weekes two dayes. 
 
 The term began at Ludlow, 2 March, 1620, in whiche wear herd 
 228 cawses; three weekes, two dayes. 
 
 My circuit began 9 April, 1621, at Chester. I lay on the way, 
 on Fryday nightc, at sir Fraunces Newport's at Eton. L'pon 
 Saturday I was met by many gentlemen of Shropshire and Cheshire, 
 in the way toward Whitchurche, at whiche towne I had a Latin 
 oration made me, in the market place, and lodged that nighte, and 
 al Sunday, at the house of sir Thomas Brereton near Whitchurche, 
 and went on jNIonday to Chester, and was met on the way by a great 
 number of gentlemen of worthc. The highe shirif, mr. Marburyc, 
 lay vcrye sick, and his sun ami heir attended the judges all the 
 week. 
 
 Our expenccs at Chester came to double the king's allowance, but 
 our presents in Flint and Denbighe, whear we dieted ourselves, wear 
 so large as that we defracd the whole charge of the circuit, and saved 
 the king's allowance. The shirif of Muuntgomerye enterteyned us at 
 
 * Near Civita Veochia.
 
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 his owne charf;c. At our retoin f'rom the Pole * we lav at nu. 
 Wayties ncer Ludlow. We wear entcrteyncd at Denbighe withe a 
 Latin oration in the market place, and a refrer<liing of wyne and 
 cakes. When we went ("rom Denbi<^he toward the Pole, we wear 
 enterteyned at liuthin withe the waitcs of the towne, and a banquet, 
 a Latin oration, and an enterlude. At the end of the circuit I went 
 up and sat in I^arliament, and as I went stayd only on day at the 
 apparance at Beaut llieu. 
 
 Sir I'^auncis Iuire,t sun to the lord Eure, on of the counsell 
 attendant and cheef justice of Xorthe Wales, dyed about Ester, 
 and l>dward Littleton of the Inner Temple succeeded him in 
 botlie places. 
 
 Trinity term, 1G21, began Lunai, 18 Junij, to whiche day it was 
 adjourned from Wednesday, 13 Junij, continued four weekcs, and in 
 it wear herd 274 cawses. At Beaudlieu. 
 
 At ]\Iay apparance at Beaudlieu, held 5 Maij, 1621, I stayd but 
 untill Tuesday, and sir Henry Townesend kept out the rest of the 
 apparance. 
 
 Autumn apparance began Jovis, 23 August, 1621, by mr. 
 Edward Littleton. | I came thether the Sunday after, and stayd 
 untill Saturday, and then went onward to my circuit to Chester, 
 whiche began Luna;, 3 September, and so to Flint,'"^ Wrexham, 
 and tlie Pole, from whiclie I went home to my owne house, and 
 kept the quarter sessions at Oxon on my wav. 
 
 In September, 1621, tlicar came to my house at Falley,§ and 
 lodged thear, John Williams, dr. in divinity, dean of West- 
 minster, and bishop elect of Lincoln, lord keeper of the great seal of 
 England. 1 went withe hiin the next day, being Bartholomew day, 
 to Woodstock, whear the king was; we alone rode togeather in his 
 coatche, all the way, and in the way visited the ruins of the churche 
 
 • Fool, or WoIcli|«K)l, ill Montgomeryshire. 
 
 f Son of William second lonl Kiiro, who died 1593, by Margaret, duughttr of Sir 
 Edward Dyiiiiikc. 
 
 X Nolo by writer. — 28 cawses herd tlien. § Kawioy, co. Ducks. 
 
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 of Dorchester, whicUe was tlic ancient sea of his bishoprik. '1 licar 
 attended him, withe me, sir Kichard Lovelcssc, sir William Borlase, 
 sir Anthonye Barker, sir Richard Lcydall, mr. Elmcs,and mr. Cope 
 Doylye. I held myself mutche beholding to this honorable gentle- 
 man, for that the same day the seal was delivered unto him he sent 
 for my old servant RiCiiAUD Oaklye, and made him his secreatarye. 
 He came to me in Trinity term 1609, by giving me a Latin epistle, 
 being at that time a postmaister of Merton colledge in Oxon. and a 
 good scholler ; during his service withe me he was diligent, fay th- 
 full, and loving to me, and spent his idle times in studyeof the law, 
 being admitted of the Middle Temple, whcar having done all his 
 exercises he was called to [the] bar in Michaelmas term 1621, having 
 bean secreatarye to the lord keeper from the 10 Julij before. He was 
 born neer Bishop's Castle in Shropshire, upon an ancient demean of 
 his name called Oakly; his father is Rowland Oakly, noW living 
 thcar. John Oaklye, yonger brother of Ricliard, was preferred unto 
 me by his brother Richard at Whitsuntide 16 — . 
 
 In the vacation 1621 after Trinity term, i\Ir. Nicolas Overburye 
 and mr. Edward Littleton, two of the counsell attendant, Avear 
 knighted at Warwick, by the means of the lord president. In 
 that vacation, SIR Lyonell Cranfield was made lord Cranfeild 
 and lord thesaurer, in the rome of the lord Magnavill,* who slid out 
 of the place no man knowethe how. 
 
 Sir Walter Pye, now attorney of the court of Wardes, this 
 Hillary term 1621, was mycoUegue in St. John's colledge in Oxon, 
 and came to the Middle Temple a little before me, whear he and I 
 have ever sithence continued in good terms of frendship. My 
 ancient frend and colleguc dr. William Laud was consecrated 
 bishop of St. David's, Michaelmas term 1621, being then president 
 of St. John's colledge in Oxon. 
 
 In December 1621, sir Henry Townesiiend, on of the counsell 
 attendant, dyed at his house in Shropshire, about five days after he 
 went from the term at Ludlow. He had been of the counsell 
 
 * Man<lpvillo. aftcrwanU e.irl <>f M.Tiichestcr.
 
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 sithencc Hi Elizubeth, and was the first associate to the justice of 
 Chester after the statute 18 Elizabeth; he reconcd himself 84 
 yeares of a^n-. 
 
 At Beaudlieu in the bef^iiining of Trinity term 1()21, the lord 
 Conipton being thear, challenged to have place of nic, and all the 
 reason he gave was, bycaus my predecessor gave it him. But, 
 bycaus I wold have the question cleared, I cawscd a report to be 
 made by twelve of the most credible men at tlie counscll,sum being 
 of the counsell attendant, others counselors at the bar, and officers of 
 the house, and of the signet, and of the clerk of the counsell, that 
 for 58 yeares, and so at all times sithcnce, the cheef justice of 
 Chester allwayes had place and precedence at the counsell in the 
 marches, as well out of the court as in court, next to the lord 
 president, and above sutche bishops and noblemen of the counsell 
 as resorted thether for his majesties service. 
 
 The lord president, at his cumming to Beaudlieu, did acknow- 
 ledge, at the table, that it was my due, and diil place me before the 
 bishops of Hereford and Worcester, that wear thear at the term. 
 The instructions do lift the cheef justice of Chester before the judges, 
 next to the chancelor of the cschcquer, being a privie counselor, yet 
 withe a saving in the end of his place heertofore used. 
 
 1 was informed that the erl of Pembroke, being president, and in 
 ill termes withe sir Richard Shuttlcworthe, cheef justice, wold have 
 given way for the lordChandos to have had place of the justice, but 
 openly, in going to the churche, the cheel" justice claymed it, and 
 had it. 
 
 The lord Zouchc being president, and verye ill affected against sir 
 Richard Lewknor, cheef justice, wold have done so by him, but being 
 informed by the counsell, and by all the ancients at the bar and in 
 the king's house, that the cheef justice had allwayes had it, did 
 forbear to interrupt in it, but gave it to him of the bishops and 
 noblemen that resorted to the counsell. I have cawsed that report 
 to be entered into the register at the counsell, bearing date la Sep-
 
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 tembor l.'iSn, that postcritye may have evidence to settle the ques- 
 tion, if it sholde ever be stirred againe. 
 
 My wile and I and our tamilye came to Ludlow tlic 25 of Octo- 
 ber, 1621, whear we lay that winter in the house of sir Edward 
 Fox, on of the counsell, who lent us the house, withe hangings, 
 bedding, lumber, and sutche utensils belounging to it, and gave 
 me ten ton of pit coal toward my winter provision of fewell. 
 The lord president and his ladyo, and the lord Compton and his 
 lad^-c, kept Christmas at Ludlow this winter, 1621. 
 
 Michaelmas term began at Ludlow, 26 October, 1621, and was 
 for five weekes. Thcar were herd in it 328 cawses. 
 
 Hillary term began at Ludlow, 14 January, 1621, for fower 
 weekes. Thcar wear herd in it 251 cawses. 
 
 Lent term began at Ludlow, die Veneris^ 8° Martij, for lower 
 weekes. Causes herd 331. 
 
 
 Presents 
 
 this winter. 
 
 
 
 Provender, fourteen quarter and a half, bushells . 116 
 
 Hay, lodes ..... 
 
 16 
 
 Coles, tuns . 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 Wood, lodes 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 Sugar loves 
 
 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 Samons 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 Cokkcs 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 Snipes 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 Rabbets 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 Chikkens 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 Sheep 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 Calves 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3| 
 
 Lams 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 Kids 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 U 
 
 Capons 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 Partriches 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 43 
 
 Plovers 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 Geese 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 Dukkes 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5
 
 iAlMAl rA.Mi;LICUS. 
 
 03 
 
 Foul 
 
 Stints* 
 
 Pheasants 
 
 Turkey's 
 
 Blackbirds 
 
 Growse and heathecocks 
 
 Hares 
 
 Ked deer 
 
 Fallow deer 
 
 Boares 
 
 Cheeses 
 
 Beef, oxen (1 (jr. of a sturtf and a cliine besides;) 
 
 Pullets 
 
 Hens 
 
 Wardens J 
 
 Hern § 
 
 Fishe, 24 carpes, 6 trouts, 2 eeles 
 
 Pigeons 
 
 Wheat, 2 strike 
 
 Lemons 
 
 Straw, lode 
 
 Besides grocerye wares, sweet waters, cates, 
 niartchepanes. My presents ar well and easilye 
 valued to 501. 
 
 24 
 10 
 II 
 12 
 
 7 
 300 
 
 1 
 32 
 19 
 
 2 
 15 
 
 1 
 
 The fees of knighthood when I was knighted, 29 October, 1G20. 
 
 Gentlemen ushers, dayly wayters 
 
 Harolds 
 
 Gentlemen ushers, (juarter wayters 
 
 Sewers of the chamber 
 
 Yeomen, ushers, groomes, and pages 
 
 Trumpeters . 
 
 Footmen 
 
 Porters 
 
 Drum major 
 
 Gentlemen ushers, privie chamber 
 
 Servients at amies . 
 
 Yeomen of the moutiic 
 
 Sandpipers. [?J 
 
 ■f Sturk.[?J 
 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 s 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 * Pear 
 
 ». 
 
 § 
 
 Heron*
 
 94 MHKIf I'AMELICUS. 
 
 Tii^'cs of the butlcluimber 
 Knighte harbinger . 
 Kobcs, for kecj)inji the sword 
 Surveyor of the wayes 
 Servient trumpeter . 
 Coatchenian 
 Arelie the fool* 
 
 £ s. 
 3 () 
 
 (I. 
 
 8 
 
 3 6 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 £44 17 
 
 8 
 
 Subseribed as due by sir IficharJ Culveli-y, usher 
 of the chamber. 
 
 The summer last, 1622, I bou^hte out the lives in Joscplie 
 Taylor's copieliold, whiche cost mc 210/. \n December 1622, I 
 bought of sir William AUbrd the moityc of the lands of Fillel's 
 Court, for whiche I payd 1,000/. in hand, and am to pay 200/. 
 more in May next; so I have now layd out in the lands thear 
 10,410/.; see supra, p. 53. 
 
 In May 1623, after my circuit ended at Flint, I went to Mostin, 
 whear sill Roger jMostix and I concluded a marlage, between 
 Thomas his sun and heir and Eliza bethe my eldest daughter. My 
 agrement by endenture was to pay him 2,500/.; but when I gave se- 
 curitye he remitted 200/., of which he told me he wold forgive me 
 on 100/., and I shold bestow the other on the yong couple in utensils 
 of house. I was also to apparell her, and to give them and theares 
 a yeares enterteynment. He assured upon their issue male all 
 his lands in the countyes of Carnarvon, Flint, Denbigh, Chester, 
 and the countye of the citye of Chester, worthe per annum by sur- 
 vey 3000/., withe his cole mynes. He wasoflcred a baronye for the 
 mariafre of his sun, and refused it. 
 
 I came from Mostin to Ludlow, and on the 24. of May, I and my 
 wife wear present at thcar mariage, withe other frendes, in the parishc 
 churche of Staunton Lacyc, necr Ludlow. 
 
 On Fryday the 8. of August 1623, I was entertcyned by the dean 
 and canons of Windsor in the deanes lodgings, and my horses also. 
 
 * Archie Armstrong.
 
 Liiu:it lAMKLicrs. 95 
 
 Thcav I stayed ul nlglito, and was vcrye wellcum. Tlic next 
 day 1 went to Fallcy Court. Tins was in my passage from Lon- 
 don, and at thear request, to treat wltlio me concerning the state of 
 tliear house. 
 
 I was chosen recorder in Cower sevoridl phices, after my being 
 cheef justice of Chester; in Beaudlicii, wltlx- 20.'?. fee, and my horse- 
 meat when the counsell lye thear; in Ludlow, withe 405. fee, and 
 three lotle of hay yearly; in Bishop's Castle, withe 405. fee; in Pole, 
 withe 40,s\ fee. 
 
 A motion was made to the king, by the duke of Buckingham, to 
 remove me into the King's I^cnche, in the place of justice Haufditon, 
 who dyed Hillary 1G23; but 1 was unwilling, so the matter cooled. 
 I went up about it 7" April 1623, and rctorned 14 April. 
 
 The erl of Northampton, lord president of the counsell in the 
 marches of Wales, was verye desirous to be quit of me at the 
 counsell; his reason was, I did not give way unto him and his 
 servants, nether in the court nor in the king's house, in bothe whiche 
 I conccaved things to be caryed contrarye to the king's instructions 
 and niync othe. Therfore he made meanes, by the duke of Buk- 
 ingham, of whomc he had deserved well, to remove me into the 
 King's Benclie, and to have sir Thomas Chandjcrleyne back againe 
 to the counsel!. His reasons for that wear two: 1. sir Thomas 
 Chamberlevne had caryed himself in the place withe good opinion 
 of the couutrye for his uprightncsse, and was shufHed out of his 
 place against his will, by the lord president's meanes, being wearye 
 also of him, thoughe he denyed not those things unto him whiche I 
 did, and he thought it wolde be the better taken that after me he 
 sholde bring in on that was well liked, then a meer stranger; for I 
 was aecoumpted as well of in my place, for my integritye, as any man 
 ever was. 2. The other reason was, sir Thomas Chamberleyne was 
 verye weake, not likely to live, and the erl meant to have him but 
 as a stale to supply the place at the first, to satisfy the gaze and to 
 provide on for his profit agenst he dyed, whiche he made accompt 
 wold be vcrye shortlye. The duke made his means by the lord
 
 96 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 keeper, wlio lie knew could do niutche witlic me, as my private frend, 
 for the king being moved answered them, if I did consent to it he 
 •wold do it, but, unles they coidd alledge sum fultc in me, he could 
 not remove me against my will. The duke, being asked by the lord 
 keeper whether any exception coulde be taken against me in my 
 place, answered, No; ther Avas no sutche intention, nor any other 
 course thoughte on to do it, but more honorario, bycaus the lord 
 president and I could not agree better. Herupon I was moved to 
 remove in Ester term 1624, for justice Houghton dyed Hillary term 
 1623; but I absolutely refused, bycaus my two circuits wear to cum. 
 I passed on withe them, and came home to my house at the end of 
 my second circuit, whear I arrived 13 October 1624, and found 
 these letters sent thetlicr from my lord keeper, written withe his owne 
 hand, inside and out:?ide. 
 
 To my assured loving frend sir James Whitlock, cbeef justice of 
 Chester, and of Ins majesties counsell in the marches of Wales. 
 
 Mr. justice, after ray verye hartye commendations, upon sum new complaints 
 made unto my noble lord and youres of unkindenesses between your cheif and 
 yow, I have presumed so mutche upon my power withe yow, and that desire 
 I have of your neernesse unto me, as to assure my lord duke, that to give his 
 grace contentment, and to prevent all future jealousies, yow wolde leave your 
 place to your predecessor and serve his majestye as on of the justices of his 
 Benche. And heerupon the king (in whose highe favour and good opinion yow 
 do remayne) hathe called yow by a writ for this service, for the whiche 1 do 
 desire yow to prepare youi'self withe your best conveniencye, desiring, withe all 
 my hart, this remove may prove as mutche to youres as it dothe extreamlye to 
 my contentment, and assuring yow that if ever it shall lye in my power to ad 
 to your place or fortunes yow shall ever really finde nio 
 
 Your most loving and assured true frend, 
 
 Jo: Lincoln, C.S. 
 
 Westminster college, this 3d of 
 October, 1624. 
 
 Upon receipt of this letter, I went up to London the Fryday follow- 
 ing, whiche was 15° October, and spake withe my lord keeper that 
 nighte, and, being myself verye wearye of the life I led at the
 
 LIIUCU FAMELICIS. 97 
 
 counsell, assented to tlie remove, and, bycaus I was to receavc no 
 allowance from the king iintill I had my patent, I moved my lord 
 that it mighte be dispatched so sone as he would, whiche was pursued 
 accordinglye, for 1 was sworn on Monday ibllowing, being 18- 
 October, St. Luke's day. Sir Thomas Chamberleynehad his discharge 
 the same morning. My lord keeper sate in the middle of the court, 
 the lord cheif justice* on his righte hand, and justice Dodri'dge f on 
 the righte hand of the cheif justice, for in the places of Houghton and 
 Chamberleyne, being on the left hand of the lord keeper, no man sate. 
 First, SIR William Jones, who was cheif justice of Ireland and 
 removed from thence into the Common Pleas, Michaelmas, 1G21, in 
 the place of Sir Peter Warbarton, and upon the same occations as I 
 was removed, was broughtc from the Common Pleas in his robes of 
 skarlet, withe his mantell, as he sate in court, for he was taken from 
 his place sitting in court, and he was broughte to the court of King's 
 Benche, and placed before the table at whiche the clerks sit, and 
 thear, he standing on his feet, the lord keeper made a spccche unto 
 him, signifying the king's pleasure he shold serve in that court; he 
 answered him breefly, then kneeled downe, and toke his othe, and 
 was placed on the left hand of the lord keeper. Then I, standing at 
 the bar, in the purple habit of a sergeant, withe the sergeants on 
 ether side of me in their purple habits, it being a hoUiday, my 
 lord spake breelly unto me, giving me good commendations Ibr my 
 service in the place whence I came, and among other his words of 
 commendation, he sayd, I had done excellent good service thear, 
 shewed reasons whye the king did desire to supplye the higher courts 
 heer withe judges out of his provinces, bycaus he found them readyer, 
 and better instructed for the government of his kingdom, then those 
 that he toke practisers from the bar. When he had ended, I shortlye 
 used this specche unto him. 
 
 It may ploaso your lonlsliip, I (inde the lifo of :i judge consists of two parts; 
 the active part and the ]):issive part. The active part, wliiche is his services, 
 
 * Sir Janips Ley. 
 
 t Sir John Doderidgo, justice of the Kin^^'s Bonch ir)12.1C28. P'oss'» Jii«lgt«, vi. 306. 
 CAMD. SOC. (>
 
 98 I.inKll FAMELICUS. 
 
 actions, and iniploynients, I finde to be ({umdam militia, the passive part, \vlii(;lie 
 is his siitTerings and wronjiis, I finde to be martijrium quoddum. Mittitur in 
 propinciam, revocatur in wham ; labores, vigilia, nuaqnam quins, nnsqiuim otium ; 
 the dilU'rence is, in hello casus valet, hie nihil; ihi virihus contenditur, hie rutione; 
 ibi Fortuna judiee, hie viro prudcntc. Honce is the distinction of militia 
 ctelestis, militia armata, id militia toguta. The siiflerings of a judge may well be 
 called a martyrdom, lor he suflerethe for well doing: he for whome judgement 
 is given thinkethe it no merit to have but his righte, he against whome it is 
 given thiiiketlie he hathe wrong. No man is contented withe justice unles it 
 be atlbrded him by his owne measure; he must exercise two propertyes of 
 a martyr, he must feri-c contumelias ct odientem diligere, whiche, as on* say the, 
 is marti/rium in oeculta cogitulione, as mori a persequente is martip-ium in aperto 
 opere, but a judge hathe no more reason to be oHeiided witiie sutclie men then 
 a physician witli a froward patient. 
 
 Seneca, in his tract In sapientein uon cadere iiijiirictin,\ saythe that, against 
 those that ar in publiqiie places, lutissime patct injuriaruminateria illis per quos iis 
 pcricuhiin qucesituni est, ut ah accusatore sidjmisso, ant criminntione fidsa, aut irritutis 
 in eos potentiorum motibus, and other particulers by him recited, whiche he 
 callethe quadum inter togatos latrocinia. Ileerupon was grownded that caution 
 mutche about those times,J that to do well was not alwayes safe, to do ill did 
 most times escape bhuue, but to do little was least dangerous, bycaus it was 
 lest subject to accoumpt. I have served his mnjestye tliese fewer yeares in 
 provincia, it is liis pleasure I shold now serve him in urhe. j\Iy service hathe 
 been in my circuit, and at the counsell in the marches. In my circuit, in the 
 meer practise at the common law, cum imperio et jurisdictione, the two amies of 
 justice; for that notable statute of 34 Henry VIII. cap. [26]§ dothe erect in those 
 circuits perfect and compleat courts of King's Benche and Common Pleas, the 
 on in potestate gladii, in pleas of the crowne, the other cum potestate jurisdicendi, 
 in civill pleas. At the counsell, the object of the justice is the cognisance of 
 starchamber and chancerye causes, and of civil pleas of 501. ami under, by later 
 instructions. 
 
 For this place, to which it hathe pleased his majestye to calle me, I holde 
 myself far unable and unworthye of it. It makethe me within the observation 
 of Christe in St. ^Matthew |1 "To him that hatiie it shall be given." I was not 
 willing to put a hazard upon myself in leaving knowenpathes to runn into un- 
 knowen, whiche I speake in respect of that place whear the reverend judges 
 
 * Gregor. in Homil. [lib. ii. no. x.\xvi. \ol. i. p. IGIG. cd. 1705.] 
 
 t Cap. 9. [vol. I. p. 3'J(). ed. Rulikopf, Lips. 1797.] J Tacitus. 
 
 § "An act for certain Ordinances in the King's Dominion and Principality of Wales." 
 
 II M.Tttlifw, ch. XXV, vcr. 29.
 
 LIIJKi: F AMKLICUS. 99 
 
 sit, for ill lliis wlicar I now staml, 1 am no stranj^er ; I attended in it, as a 
 practiser, most commonly for the space of tweiity-tlireo years and altove. 
 
 Your lordsiiip Iiatlie most gravely and rcligiouslye instructed me quomodo 
 agenflum ; I will lern of these reverend judges, whose assessor I am to bo, 
 quid ageiid'wi. If I observe your lordsliipp's godly advise, the hart, wliiclie is 
 the fountayne, will be pure and clonsed from those four steynes whiclie pervert 
 justice — odium, amor, timor, cu/)idUas. If I harkcn to the comments of these 
 reverend judges, whiche I will verye intentively do, I shall know what to 
 dispense and measure out to the subject that callethe for righte and justice. 
 The product of bothe whiche will be, that true dutye of a, ]u(\ge, juste persequi 
 quod justum. est,* whiche dutye, by God's grace, I will ever endeavour to observe. 
 
 This being sayd, I [was] led up into the court, and, kneeling 
 before the table thear, toke the othes. I was then caryed up into 
 the court, and sat upon the left side of sir William Jones. From 
 thence the lord keeper went to the Common Pleas, and thear swore 
 sergeant Frauncis Ilarvye justice in tlie Common Please, in the 
 roome of sir William Jones; so 1 had a puisne judge the lirst day. 
 
 I was called in iMichaelmas term to the Stnrchamber once, to tlie 
 Chancerye often, to sit withe tlie lord kee|)er, and 1 was put into the 
 commission in Chancerye. I was barred from the profits of the 
 office for the vacation before JMichaelmas term, bycaus sir Thomas 
 Chamberleyne was then justice, but was admitted those that did 
 accrue from the first day of Michaelmas term, and these wear: — 
 
 A privie verdict ..... 
 Cognisance of deeds .... 
 Divident of common liailes 
 Bills of Middlesex, Michaelmas term 
 Divident [upon writs] of Dcdimus j)ofe.ttiiti >n 
 Divident of box ..... 
 Profits in chamber ..... 
 Of Mr. Broom 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 (i 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 11) 
 
 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 .> 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 8 
 
 G 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 117 14 1 
 
 * Deuteronomy, cli .\vi. ver. 20.
 
 100 LIBEK FAMELICUS. 
 
 Bracton, lib. iii. c. 10. fo. 108, saythe of the justices of the King's Benche that 
 they ur coUaterales et a latere Regis residentcs. fjui omnium aliorum corrigere 
 tenctitur injurius et error-es. 
 
 Fees of tlie .Tustices to be payd at Michaehuas and Annuntiation.* 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 To the cheife justice 258 6 5 
 
 To the cheif justice of the Common Pleas . 194 19 9 
 
 To the cheif baron and justices of ether benche 188 6 8 
 To the barons of the eschequer . . . 113 6 8 
 
 Memorandum, that the robes of the judges ar furred upon Simon 
 and Jude,t and so continue until Ascention,:J: and then they be faced 
 withe silk. 
 
 Thear wear in commons at Sergeants' In, Fleet Street, this 
 Michaelmas term, 1624, judges six, sergeants fourteen. 
 
 Judnfes on the benche this term of St. Michael, 1624. 
 
 James Ley, chivaler, Lincoln's In, de pais de Wiltshire (natus 
 
 ibidem) . . . • • • • • • • . B. R. 
 
 Uenrye Ilobart, baronet, Lin. In, de pais de Norfolk (natus 
 
 ibidem) . . . • • • • • • . . B. C. 
 
 Lawrence Tanfeild, chivaler. In. Temp., de Oxfordshire (natus in 
 
 com. Huntington) ......... Scac. 
 
 Edward Bromley, chivaler. In. Temp., Salop (natus ibidem) . . Scac. 
 Johannes Dodridge, chivaler. Mid. Temp., Surrey (natus in co. 
 
 Devon) B. R. 
 
 Humfred' Winche, chivaler. Line. In, Bedford (natus ibidem) . B. C. 
 Johan' Denham, chivaler. Line. In, Surrey (natus Londini) . . Scac. 
 
 Kicard' Ilutton, chivaler, Gr. In, Eborum (natus ibidem) . . B. C. 
 
 AVilliel' Jones, chivaler, Line. In, Anglesey, moratur in London, et 
 
 in com. Buck, et Oxon. (natus in Anglesey) . . . . B K. 
 Jacobus Whitelocke, chivaler. Mid. Temp., Buckingham (natus 
 
 Londini) . . . . • • • • • • . B. R. 
 
 Franciscus Harvey, Mid. Temp., Northampton (natus ibidem) . B. C. 
 
 • 25 March. t 28 October. 
 
 X Holy Thursday, Tliursday in the tiftli week after Easter week.
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. lOl 
 
 Scrvientcs Domiiu Kegis, attorniitiis et sollicitntor. 
 
 Kaniilplius Crue, chivaler, Line. In, natus in com. Cestriic, conunorans in 
 AVestnir. 
 
 Johannes Davys, chivaler, Mid. Temp., natus in com. Wilts, habitans in 
 com. liarks. 
 
 Kobertus Ilitcham, chivaler, Gr. In, tie com 
 
 Henricus Finch, chivaler, Gr. In, de co. Cantia?. 
 
 Georgius Croke, chivaler, inner Temp., natus in com. Buck, habitans in com. 
 Oxon. 
 
 Tho. Coventre, chivaler, In. Temp., natus in com. Wigorn, morans Londini, 
 attornat. general. 
 
 Robertus Ileathe, chivaler, In. Temp., natus in com. Sur., morans Londini, 
 sollicitator generalis. 
 
 Copia litterarum patentium irrot. ]MIch. 22 Jac. rot. 20L 
 
 Jacobds, Dei gratia Angl. Scot. Fran, et Iliber. Rex, fidci dcfens. &c. 
 OMNinus ad quos presentcs litterae pervenerint salutem. Sciatis quod con- 
 stituimus dilectum et fidelem nostrum Jacobum Whitelocke, militem, servientem 
 ad legem, unum Justitiariorum nostrorum ad placita coram nobis tenend. 
 assignat. IIabknuvm quandiu nobis placuerit, cum vadiis et feodis ab antique 
 debitis et consuetis. In cujus rei testimonium has littcras nostras fieri feeimus 
 patentes. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium, 18 die Octobris anno regni 
 nostri Angliaj, Franciaj, &c. 22" et Scotia? 58°. 
 
 At this time thear wear two places voydin the King's Benche; the 
 on of justice Houghton, who dyed in Hillary term last, and the other 
 of justice Chambcrlcync, who was discharged of his place in the 
 King's Benche by Avrit, this 18. of October, being St. Luke's day; 
 on whiche day sir William Jones, knighte, and I wearbothe sworn; 
 ut supra, p. 97. 
 
 Term Hillar. 1624. 
 The vacation before this term sir .Tames Ley, cheif justice of the 
 King's Benche, was created lord Ley, and made thesaurer of England, 
 and continued notwithstanding in the place of cheif justice untill the 
 second day of this term, for the first day the writts went withe 
 his teste.
 
 102 LIBER FAMELICUa. 
 
 Sir Randle Crew, the king's sergeant-at-law, was made cheif 
 justice in his place. 
 
 Justice Winche dyed this term, and sir George Croke, the 
 king's sergeant-at-law, was made justice of the Common Pleas in 
 his place. 
 
 In December 1624, dyed my brother Ricuard, who if he had 
 lived untill Innocents following, he had been full fifty-nine yeares of 
 age, for ho was born 28 December, 1565; he dyed at Elbing in 
 Spruceland. 
 
 Justices of Assise tlie circuit in Lent, 22 et 23 Jacobi. 
 
 Oxon., Barks, Gloucester, Monmouthe. ) justice Jones de B.R. 
 
 Heref., Salop., StaflTord, Wigorn. ) justice Whitelocke de B.R. 
 
 Southampton, Wiltes, Somerset. ) cheif baron Tanfeild. 
 
 Dorset, Devon, Cornwall. ) justice Ilutton de B. C. 
 
 Sussex, Surrey, Kent. ) justice Croke de B. C. 
 
 Essex, Hartford. i Sergeant Davis. 
 
 Northampton, Warwick, Lecester. ) cheif justice de B. C. 
 
 Rutland, Lincoln, Darby, Nottingham. ) baron Bromley. 
 
 Buckingham, Bedford, Cambridge. } cheif justice de B. R. 
 
 Huntington, Norfolk, SuiTolk. ) justice Dodridge de B. R. 
 
 Eborum, Lancaster, Durham. . ^^^^^ Denham. 
 Northumberland, Cumberland, West- .^^^.^^ jj^^.^.^^^ ^^ g <.. 
 
 merland. J 
 
 Memorandum, quod 6" die Februarii, recepi breve domini Regis 
 de summonitione ad parliamentum in hijs verbis sequentibus: — 
 
 Jacobus &c. dilecto et fideli nostro Jacobo Whitelocke, militi, uni Jus- 
 titiariorum ad placita coram nobis tenenda assign, salutem. Cum nuper, de 
 advisamento et assensu concilii nostri, pro quibusdara arduis et urgentibus 
 negotiis, nos, statum et defensionem regni nostri Angliae et ecclesise Anglicanaj 
 concernentibus, quoddara parliamentum nostrum apud civitatem nostram 
 Westmonasterium 12" die Februarii, anno regni nostri Anglia;, &c. 21° et Scotia; 
 57" teneri ordinavimus, ac ibidem cum prwlatis magnatibus et proceribus dicti 
 regni nostri colloquium habendum et tractandum. Quod quidem parliamentum 
 nostrum 19° die dicti mensis Februarii inchoatum, et ibidem usque ad 29'"" diem 
 ^Liij ultimo prfcterito tentum fuit, ac deinde per diversas prorogationes, usque
 
 LIBKIl I'AMELICUS. 103 
 
 ad et in IS"™ diem Martii proximo futuro prorogatum existit, Veins mandamus, 
 firmiter injuiigendo, quod, omnibus alijs praetermissis, dicto 15^ die Martii apud 
 Westmouiustcriiim pre(li(;tum personaliter intersitis, nobiscum ac cum ca;teris de 
 concilio nostro super dit-tis negotiis tractaturum verumque concilium impen- 
 suruin. Et hoc nullatenus oinittatis. Teste meipso, apud Westmonasterium, 
 quinto die Februarli, anno regni nostri Angliie, Sic -I'l" et Scotia; 58". 
 
 C.»:sAR Ka. 
 
 Our circuit began at Oxon, Martis, 8vo die Martii, 1G24. The 
 king dyed 27 Martii following, yet we herd not of it, being then at 
 Stafford, but proceeded, and on Wednesday execution was done on 
 tliose that wear tryed thear. I sat upon nisi prius. On Thursday 
 we came to Worcester, but, being assured of tlie king's deathe, we, 
 witlie the bishop, highe shirif, and maior of Worcester, and the 
 justices of the peace of the countyc, proclaymed king Charles, it being 
 the last of Martche, 1625. 
 
 Termino Pasc. 1625. 
 
 This term SIR JoiiN Walter of the Inner Temple, that was 
 attorney to prince Charles, was made serjeant-at-law, and chcif baron 
 of the eschequer, and had the western circuit. He is a Shropshire 
 man born. 
 
 Sir Henrye Yelverton of Grays In, that had been sum time 
 attorney, was made fifth judge of the Common Pleas, and sergeant, 
 and had Essex circuit. The rest held as at the last circuit. A 
 Northamptonshire man. 
 
 Sir Thomas Trevor, that was soUicitur to prince Charles, was 
 made sergeant and fourth baron of the eschequer. He was of the 
 Inner Temple, a Flintshire man orujine, sed natus Londini. 
 
 On Saturday the 2"^ of July, the king in person, withe the lords 
 spirituall and temporall, and the judges and other officers of the 
 higher house, celebrated A fast in the Abbey of Westminster. It 
 bco-an at 9 in the morning, continued untill past on, and then 
 began at almost 3, and continued till past 5. The king was not 
 thear in the afternoon. Bishop of Bathe and Wells* preached in 
 
 • Arthur Lake, 1616-1626.
 
 104 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 the forenon, and the bishop of Salisburyc * in the after noon ; the 
 bishop of Bristoll t red prayers; the l)ishops of Bangor $ and st. 
 David's § red the letanyc; tlie bishops of LlandalfH and Gloucester IF 
 red the latter service. 
 
 The king sate in the highe pue on the left hand of the pulpit; 
 the bishops sate against him in a low pue in the quier before. The 
 prebendaryes, the erles and viscounts sate in the pues under the 
 pulpit, and the judges sate on formes before them. The barons sate 
 over against the erls, on the left hand as yow cum up to the 
 chancell, and the king's sergeants, counsell at law, and masters of the 
 chancery sate on formes before them. 
 
 The commons did celebrate this fast in st. Margaret's Churche, 
 and had three sermons that day, and the next day, being Sunday, 
 did all of them rcceave the blessed sacrament. 
 
 Concerning the passages in term and parliament see my booke of 
 reports. 
 
 ]\Iemorandum, that a justice of ether bcnche hathe, per diem, 
 85. did., whiche in the whole yccr amountcthe to 154/. 19«. 8c?., and 
 he hathe wages for circuits per annum 231. 6s. 8d. payable at Annun- 
 tiation and Michaelmas, by equal portions; so his half yeares wages is 
 half-veerly 94/. 3s. 2d., whiche is payed unto him the day after Ester 
 term and the day after ]\Iichaelmas term, and his quotidian he hathe 
 but from the day his patent bears date exclusive, whiche was the 
 cawse I was abated; for my quotidian began 19 October, and I was 
 sworn 18 October. 
 
 The circuit money is ever payd the day after Hillary term, and 
 the day after Trinity term. 
 
 Thear is due to everye puisne judge impost for two tonnes of wyne, 
 whiche is worthe 41., but it is encroached on for new fees of officers. 
 
 Sir Thomas Chamberleyne, knighte, justice of Chester, dyed 
 27 September 1625. 
 
 * John Davenant, 1621-1041. f Robert Wright, 1623-1632. 
 
 Z Lewis Bajley, 1616-1631. § William Laud, 1621-1626. 
 
 II Theophilus Field, 1619-1627. 1 Godfrey Goodman, 1624-1640,
 
 LIUEU I'AMKLICl'S. 105 
 
 Upon Tlmrsday G October, whichc was piwiKs dies of the Utas* 
 of St. Micliacll, I kept essoinos in Westminster lialle, and adjourned 
 iMicliaelinas term, cssoincs and all, untill mense Michaelis, to the same 
 place, according to the kinpj's proclamation dated at Ticlifeild, 4. 
 September, 1625. I came that mornin*:^ from Ilorton by Colebroke 
 in my coatche, and at the park-corner turned in, and thear dyncd 
 in my coatche withe colde meat I caryed withe me thethcr; and 
 left al my hakneys thear, and tokc only two men withe me in my 
 coatche, and the same day rctorned back to Horton againe.f 
 
 Siii IIenuy Hobekt, knight and baronet, cheif justice of the 
 Common Pleas, dyed at his house in Norfolk, upon st. Thomas of 
 Canterburyes day, 1625, which is the morow after Innocents day.J 
 
 Term Hill. 1625, sir John Bridgeman, knighte, scrgeant-at- 
 law, was made justice of Chester, in the place of sir Thomas Cham- 
 berleyne that was dcd. 
 
 Sir John Davis, knighte, on of the king's sergeants-at-law, dycl 
 sodeynly in the nighte after Michaelmas term, 1626. He was well 
 when he went to bed, and was found dcd in his bed in the morning, 
 ])ut what time in the nighte he dyed was not knowen, nor herd of. 
 He was in communication to have been made cheif justice of the 
 King's Benche, in the place of sir Randle Crew. But God prevented 
 so inconvenient an intention to the common wealthc. 
 
 In January, 1626, I boughte of John Est his 6 acres of wood in 
 Falley, called Downes. I payed him ready money 'JO/. 
 
 Nota, est record in mon Court booke, quod Nicolas Hyde fuii 
 fait cheif justice de B. E., term Hillarij, 1626, 2° Car. 
 
 Memorandum, that all my ancients refused to go Norfolk circuit, 
 and then it falling to my torn, I could not, bycaus I dwelled in 
 Buckinghamshire; so of the two left I chose the Northe. 
 
 * Octaves of, or eight days after, Michaelmas. 
 
 + Tiiis was of course on account of the plague, liulstrode Whitdocke mentions this 
 circumstance in his Memorials (p. 2), with one or two additional particulars. He nijs 
 that sir James " drove fast through the streets, which were empty of people and overgrown 
 with grass, to Westminster Hall, wlure the oHieers were rea<ly, and the jti'lge antl his 
 company went straight to the King's Bench, adjourned the court, returned to his cd.T.li, 
 and drove away presently out of town." J Dec. 21'. 
 
 CAMD. SOC. P
 
 100 
 
 LIBER FAMELICUS. 
 
 Circuitus o?stivus incepit apiul Eboracum, IG die Julij, 1627. 
 
 Records 
 
 Fines 
 
 Feoda judicialia 
 
 Of the prsenotary of Lancaster 
 
 De comite Darby 
 
 De majore Eborac. 
 
 De episcopo Dunohn. 
 
 De villa Novo Castri 
 
 De mnjore Xovo Castri, (spur royall) 
 
 De comite Cumbria;, vicecomite Westmerland 
 
 De vicecomite Northumberland 
 
 De marescallo , . . . 
 
 De clamatore .... 
 
 £ s. 
 37 13 
 37 13 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 
 17 
 
 1 
 10 
 
 7 
 
 d. 
 4 
 
 4 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 Expensae. 
 
 In travail to and from circuit 
 In the circuit 
 Clerico assisarum 
 
 Sic restat de claro proficuo . 
 
 Item of the shirif of Carlile a dudgeon dagger.* 
 
 The Northern circuits was worthe to me de claro tli 
 
 the 20Z. in the duchye allowed as part of it 
 Wages at Michaelmas 1627 . 
 3 fines ..... 
 
 Summa omnium proficuorum officij mei, hoc anno 
 
 Expensae in circuitibus 
 Expensae in terminis 
 
 Sicproficua de claro, hoc anno, prjEter cxpensas 
 
 Deo Geatias. 
 
 139 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 26 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 89 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 is year, all charges born, 
 
 310 
 
 17 
 
 1 
 
 94 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 1121 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 81 
 
 8 
 
 1 
 
 65 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 147 
 
 1 
 
 11 
 
 974 10 10 
 
 * A dagger with a handle made of root of boxwood. " Turners and cutlers," says 
 Gerarde, " do call this wood dudgeon." See Nares's Glossary.
 
 LI15i:U TAMELICUS. 
 
 107 
 
 My cnterteynments in tlie Northern Circuit besides the profits 
 III i.iMit CiriMiit. 
 01" the king for York 
 
 Of tbe ducbye .... 
 
 Tlie dui-Iiye for Ester and Trinity term 
 Our cliurges at Donciister, by the towne 
 Of the niaior of York 
 Munday dinner, the niaior of York 
 Sunday and Tuesday dinner, the shirif of Yorkshire 
 The prenotarye at Lancaster 
 The erl of Darbye .... 
 Our charges, horse and men, at Lancaster . 
 
 39 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 u 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 81 12 
 
 In Summer Circuit. 
 
 Of the king for York, Northumberhmd, and Cumberhuid 
 
 For Lancaster . . . • ■ 
 
 For tlie duchye, Michaelmas and Ililiary term 
 
 Our cnterteynment at Doncaster 
 
 Of the maior of York . . . • 
 
 Sunday and Tuesday dinner, of the shiref of Yorkshire 
 
 Of the bishop of Dunolm .... 
 
 Enterteynment by the bishop at Darl[ing]ton 
 
 Enterteynment all the assises at Dunolm 
 
 Of the towne of Newcastle .... 
 
 Enterteynment of dyet by the towne, during the assises, for 
 
 the countyes of the shire and the towne 
 Of the bhiiif of Northumberland at leave taking, in gold 
 Of the maior of Newcastle at leave taking, a spur royal * in 
 Of the shirif of Cumberland all charges and a dagger 
 Of the shirif of Westmerland lodging and for all charges 
 Of the shirif of Lancaster all charges during the assise 
 Of the prenotarye of Lancaster 
 Of the erl of Darby thear .... 
 
 67 
 
 '2 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 gold 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 •J 
 
 
 
 141 Ifi 
 
 ♦ A oiu of the rt-ign of Elizabeth. On the reverse it liad a stiir resembling the rowel 
 »if a spur. Sec Nare»'» Glossary.
 
 108 T.IBEK FAMELICU8. 
 
 Memorandum, that our wages, whichc for the mcmoryc of man 
 had been ahvayes payd the last day of Ester term and JNIichaehnas 
 term, or the day after at the farthest, was unpayd the end of this 
 Michaehnas term, 1627, wherupon four of the judges wear sent from 
 all the rest to the lord thesaurer,* to desire his care of it — Jones, 
 Whitlocke, Harvye, Croke. To whome the ekl OF Makbokow, 
 thesaurer, gave sleevlesse and cumming answeares, but craftely and 
 deceiptfully, underhand, did abuse the judges withe delayes, for he 
 promised he wold take present order withe sir Robert Pye, clerk of 
 the warrants, that they shold be first payd, whiche he did by word 
 of mouthe, but by his writing gave order for others. He was put 
 in niinde of the act of 18 Henry VI. f by whiche we wear assigned 
 to be payd out of the hamper, and if in that ther wear no money, 
 then out of the customs of London, Bristow, and Kingestown-upon- 
 HuU, and that in the time of civill war we wear payd, and that so 
 mutche was ever set apart for the judges, what want soever ther was 
 otherwise; and see the booke case 1 PI. 7, fo. 4b. But this old dis- 
 sembler, that had been on of our owne companye, used us worse 
 then any man by fore him. He was wont to be called " Vulpone," 
 and 1 think he as well deservethe it now as ever. Being himself 
 indebted to sum of the judges, for moneys he had borowed of them 
 when he was cheif justice of the King's Bcnche, he gave a private 
 warrant for tlie payment of them underhand, but sir Robert Pye 
 verye honestly refused to execute it, and retorned answear, that it 
 was a gcnerall dutye for the whole order, and that it shold be done 
 for all at once, and that none ought to be preferred or singled from 
 ther fellowes. 
 
 This Michaelmas term, GeOUGE Vernon, of Cheshire, a reader of 
 the Inner Temple, was, for money, made Serjeant and baron of the 
 Eschec|uer; dedit aurum. His poesy e was Rex legis regnique patronus. 
 
 Memorandum, that the thesaurer dallyed out all the vacation, and 
 all Hillary term, without payment of our wages, wherupon myself 
 and Dodridge and Jones caused writts of liberate upon the statute of 
 
 * Jaincs Lev, carl of Mailboiougli. f Vide slat, inter arcliiva nica.
 
 LIUER FAMELICUS. 109 
 
 18 Hen. VI. to be drawn, tlicrby to charge tlie clerk of tlie petit 
 bag, but the lord keeper called us to stay, and he wold interpose. 
 
 Circuits held as the last summer, but the ancient in everye 
 circuit stayed at home to attend the parliament, whiche was to begin 
 17 Martij, 1627. 
 
 An other wonder fell out this term, for whearas the judges, ever 
 sithence their compounding for the charge of the circuit, wear payd 
 their circuit money the last day of the term preceding the circuit, 
 now at this time on penyc was not payd, so they wear put to this 
 straighte, ether to deceave the whole kingdom, whome by their 
 summons they had called togeathcr, or spend their owne money in 
 the king's service. These monstrous enormityes in the state 
 ha])pened by the crooked dealing of the thcsaurer. 
 
 Johannes Dodridge, miles, unus justitiariorum ad placita 
 coram &c., obiit in Kdibus suis apud Egliam, mense Septemb. ultimo, 
 annos natus circa 72; et in locum ejus assumptus est Georgius 
 Croke, miles, unus justitiariorum de Banco. D[odridge] fuit de 
 medio templo, Croke de inteiiore. 
 
 Note, when he toke his othe, and when he was spoken to by the 
 lord keeper, and when he answered his speeche, he kept his place in 
 the court, before the place whear the clerk and prenotaries sit, but, 
 if he had been a serjeant, he shold have stood at the bar untill he had 
 cum up to that place to swear. But, in ether case, the othe is taken 
 kneeling. Note, also, by opinion of all the judges he is to kcej) his 
 olde place, bycaus it is but as a translation of a bishop. 
 
 The allowance of Justices of Assise in tliear circuits, as it was i)roportione«l 
 at the first making thearof. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 . . • 1 1 dyet per diem . . . I s 4 
 
 A puisne jud^e \ -^ * ,, . , 
 
 for his men, ten, allowed catche IG'' . . . I.J 4 
 
 ' hordes, thirteen, eatche IG** . 
 
 Ad for the second judge as mutche 
 
 4 lU 
 
 
 
 17 4 
 
 2 
 2 
 
 9 
 9
 
 110 LIIIKU FAMELICUS. 
 
 Oxoii. t'ircuit. 
 
 For the clerk of assise, three men, catcliu 1()''. . .04 
 
 For five horses lor the clerk of assise, catchc IG''. . .00 
 
 Thear is alloweil to bothc judges for liniicii and other necessaries l:} 
 
 1 4 
 
 9 G 8 
 
 
 This in all is for bothe judges per (lieiu . . • .62 
 
 This for Oxfordshire circuit for twenty-eight dayes, whiche was 
 
 the olde allowance, came to . . . . . 170 10 
 
 Out of this the clerk of assise had, for horscuieat for twenty- 
 eight dayes ....... 
 
 Of ether judge for every circuit, 4Z. I'Ss. Ad. 
 
 Thear is an addition of five dayes to this circuit . . 30 10 
 
 So the allowance is now . . . • . 201 6 
 
 To ether judge . • • • • . 100 13 
 
 The clerk of assise hathe but his old allowance for horsemeat. 
 
 Memorandum, quod 28 die Maij, 1631, in Vigilia Pentecostes, 
 inter horas 11 et 12 post meridiem, obiit uxoit MEA charissiraa 
 Elizabetiia, apud Falley Court in com. Buck., annos nata 55 in 
 festo divi Jacobi* ultimo praiterito; fcemina marito suo amantissima, 
 fidelissima, in re familiari sua prudentissima ; in adversis patien- 
 tissima, et supra omnes quas novi pia, rcligiosa, in Deum devota, in 
 pauperes benefica. Sepulta est in ecclesia de Falley, ubi expecto 
 locum a latere ejus. ■* 
 
 Mv f-rand-childe James Wiiitelocke was born in Chcapside, 
 London, in the parish of St. Pancrace in Soper Lane, 13 Julii, 
 1631. Baptizat. ibi 28 Jidii post. I was godfather, by Ilumfrcy 
 Bennet, my daughter in lawes brother, liichard Bonnet, the eldest 
 brother, the other, and my sister Bennet godmother. Deus sit 
 henigmis pucro. 
 
 Upon the feast day of st. John the Evangelist, 27 December, 
 1631, the chappell in ray house in Falley Court, in the countye of 
 Bucks, and dioccs of Lincoln, was, in a most reverend manner, con- 
 secrated by the lord bishop of Lincoln, John Williams, wdio would 
 
 * '2.')th July : jwl- p. !•'», where .she is stated to have been horn on the "laat of July."
 
 LIHKU I AMKLICL'S. 1 H 
 
 not case liimsclf by (loin«,' [it] by cominipsion to a '* [so] goofi a Irond," 
 as it pleasfd him to esteem mo, but came from London on st. 
 Stccvcn's day of purpose to do it. Thcar wear present Robert 
 A\'riLdit(' lord binlu^p of liristoll, myselC, Kicliard Harrison, Jolin 
 I»orlace, Miles Ilubberd, and Cope Doyly, knights, Francis Winnc- 
 
 banck, clerk of the siknet, Bulstrode Whitelocke, Borlace, Cope 
 
 Doyly, suns an<l heirs to knightes; Sym<msof Pyrton, Richard 
 
 Okely, Knightlyc, Dufleild, esquicrs; John King, Some, canons 
 
 of Windsor and doctors in divinitye; James March [?], Web, 
 
 doctors in divinity; [William] War, archdeacon of Lccestcr, the 
 
 bishop of Lincoln's chaplcin that preached ; Banes, parson of 
 
 Greyes; William Kitson, parson of Fawlye; White, vicar of War- 
 grave; Canon, vicar of Hurley; Dumbelow, parson of Hamblcdcn; 
 Barnard, vicar of Medmenham; withe divers others, clerks and lay- 
 men. The bishop did, in the chappell, collate to mr. War the 
 prebend of Leaghton. in tlic elunclic of I.inrolu, vovd bv the 
 deathe of dr. Theodore Price.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 [Domestic Papers, State Paper Office, 1G13, June ]2.] 
 
 At Whitehall, in the Qlteenes Chamber of Pkesence, on Saturday 
 the 12th of June 1G13. 
 
 This day sir Robert Mancell, knight, and James Whitlocke, esquier, 
 councellor at lawe, formcrlie comniitteJ for their contempts, were convented 
 before the lords and others of liis Majesty's privey councell, assisted with 
 the Master of the Rolles, the Lorde Cheife Justice of the Common Pleas, 
 and the Lord Cheife Baron of the Exchequer, at Whitehall, and there 
 were by his Majesty's learned councell severallie charged. The substancs 
 of which charge and the sentence and order thereupon gyven were as 
 followeth : — 
 
 First, the said James Whitlocke was charged, that, whereas his Majestic 
 beinge crediblie informed of divers great fraudes, deceipts, and other 
 abuses, which had bene committed concerning the service of his Majestie's 
 navye, thorough the negligence or corrupcone of inferiour officers and others 
 iniployed in that service, thought fitt in his princely wisedome and pro- 
 vidence to grant, and accordiuglie had granted forth, a commission under 
 the greate scale of England, unto the Lord Chauncellor of England, the 
 Lord Privie Scale, the Lord Admirall, the Lord Chamberlein, and divers 
 other greate councellors and other persons of eminent quallitie, to enquire, 
 examine, and finde out the same deceipts and abuses. And upon the dis- 
 coverie of them as well to give order for the due puni.shniente of the oifen- 
 ders for the time paste as likewise to sett do^^^^e titt ordinances and rules 
 for the well governing and ordering the navye and all the incidents thereof 
 for the tynie to come, which re;isonablie may be inflicted upon the offenders, 
 provided that all should be according to lawe; the said James Whit- 
 locke, emboldened by that which ought reallie to liave refrayned him 
 
 CA.MD. SOC. Q
 
 114 APPENDIX. 
 
 (wliicli was his science and profession in the lawo), had committed 
 several 1 gnat contempts concorninge the same comission. The one, that 
 he had ixnjustlie traduced and shmdered the said comission to bee of 
 another nature then indeede it was; the other (which was yet greater) in 
 that by occasion thereof hee presumed in a verie strange and unfitt man- 
 ner to make an excursion into a general censure and defyninge of his 
 Majesties power and prerogative. 
 
 Concerninge both which it was particularlie penned by his Majesties said 
 councell,that sir Robert Mansell, treasurer of the navye, seeking to crosse 
 tlie said comission, about the end of Hillary terme last past, repaired to the 
 said Whitlocke, and earnestlie moved him in the name of the lord high 
 admirall of England (as by the said Whitlocke was avouched) to sett down 
 what exceptions he could possiblie devise, and as fuUie as hee could, to the 
 forme and substance of that comission; Avhereupon the said Whitlocke, 
 with an extraordinarie haste and apprehension, sett downe in writing 
 divers untrue and scandalous matters under the title of " Excepcones to 
 the said Comission." 
 
 For first, in the said paper, hee tearmed the comission in very con- 
 temptuous manner " irregular," '' without president," " strange," " of a new 
 mould," and such as he hoped shoiild never have place in this common- 
 wealth, and tearmed alsoe the comissioners therein " inquisitors," to make 
 it seeme the more odious, and in all the course of his writing never used 
 soe much as a modest phrase of tendernes or loathues to deale in soe highe 
 a cause, or of referring or submittinge himself to better judgment, or of 
 making the case dijB&cult or doubtfuU, but toke upon him to pronounce 
 the comission to bee voyd and against lawe, and to give an absolute cen- 
 sure in derogatinge of it. Whereas it might have become him either to 
 have declyned to deale in a cause of that greatnes, or at least to have 
 handled it in reverend and respective manner, being an acte of state pro- 
 ceeding from his ]Majestie. 
 
 Secondlie, he did taxe the comission, that by the teuour thereof the 
 punishment of offences was left to the discretion of the comissioners, which 
 is but a calumniacone, for that it appears by the words of the said co- 
 mission that the scope thereof was but ad inquirendum, and that the order 
 to be given was to be intended of a direccone to referre the offences to
 
 APPENDIX. 115 
 
 course of justice as appertaiiinctli, and not to an ymediate and judiciall 
 licuring and determinucone of tlioiu. 
 
 Thirdlie, the said Whitlocke did devise, in scandall of the said comission, 
 to compare and match it with the comission mencioncd in the yearc 
 bookcs in the 42 ycare of kinge Edward the 3rd, and there by the court 
 mostjustlie condemned, by which comission certaine persones were co- 
 maunded forthwith to arreast a subject's bodie and goods, and to cast him 
 into Gloucester gaole, withoute sentence or judgment before gyven, or 
 cause expressed, whereas the present comission was soe farre different in 
 nature from tliat other, as it might in some sort be said to be contrarie, 
 tlic one beinge to proceede to execucone and judgment precedent, and the 
 other being but a preparation to a proceeding subsequent. 
 
 And, for the second contempt, it was shewn to his Majestie's said 
 councell that the said Whitlocke liad alliinned and mayntained in the said 
 writing, that the kinge cannot, neither by comission nor in his o\vue person, 
 medle with the bodycs, goods, or landes of his subjects, but oulie by in- 
 dictment, arraignment, and tryall, or by legal proceedinge in liis ordinarie 
 courts of justice, laying for his grounde the statute of IVlagna Charta, 
 " Ntillus liber homo capiatur, cj-c." which position, in that generall and 
 indeffinite manner, was sett forth by his Majestie's said councell to be not 
 onlie grossely erroneous, and contrarie to the rules of la we, but daungerous, 
 and tending to the dissolving of the govermente. First, for that lex terra, 
 mencioned in the said statute, is not to be uuderstoode only of the pro- 
 ceedinges in the ordinarie courts of justice, but that his Majesties pre- 
 rogative, and his absolute power, incident to his soveraignty, is also 
 lex terra, and is invested and exercised by the lawe of the lande, and is 
 parte thereof. And it was thereupon observed and urged, that the opinion 
 broached by the said Whitlocke did manifestlie (by conseciuence) ovcr- 
 throwe the king's martiall power, and the authoritie of the councell table, 
 and the force of his Majestie's proclamacones, and other acconos and direc- 
 cones of state and poUicie, applied to the uecessitie of tymes and occasiones, 
 which fall not many tymes within the remedies of ordinarie justice, nor can- 
 not be tyed to the formalities of a legall proceedinge, propter tarda legum 
 mixilia. Neither could he the said Whitlocke be so blinde (cxcej^t he 
 would wilUullie mistake) but that he mustneedcs decerne that this present 
 comission was mi.xed with uialler of estate, and martiall defence, tending
 
 116 APPENDIX. 
 
 to the conservaconc of the navyo, wliicli is tlie wallcs oftliis island, and a 
 principal! portione of tlio suevtie, quictiies, and renownc of kinge and 
 kingfdonio, and thercforo not like unto a comission of oyer and determiner 
 or such other ordinary comissiones. 
 
 Secondlie, it was observed by his Majestie's councell, that in this case 
 there was another point of difference, which was, that the shippes and 
 vessells, Avith all their furniture and the materialls thereof, are the king's 
 owne, and the persons whom the said comission did concerne are his 
 officers and servants, or in his pay or wages, so that his Majestic, in this 
 case, hath a power of examinacione and correctione, not onlie as a kinge, 
 but as a master and owner. 
 
 Tliirdlie, it was enforced by his Majestie's said councell, that if the 
 statute of Magna Charta, in the point of Nulbts liber homo capiatui\ &c., 
 should receave the construccon that the said Whitlocke giveth unto it, it 
 doth manifestlie impeache all imprisonment, either for causes of state or 
 common justice, before tryall, whereas the general! practise of the realme 
 is and hath ever bene that, not onlie the councell of estate, but justices of 
 assize and justices of peace doe committ ojQfenders capitall upon pregnant 
 presumptiones before either tryall or indictment; and common reason 
 teacheth that if the persons of malefactors were not secured by safe cus- 
 todie before indictment, there would be nothing but escapes and general! 
 impunitie. And therefore that assertion of the said Whitlocke is everie 
 way pemitious. Whereupon the Kinges said learned councell concluded 
 upon both partes, that as well for the * * of his Majesties comission as 
 for the clipping and impeaching of his Majestie's prerogative and power, 
 the said Whitlocke's contempts were very great and deserve severe 
 punishment, neither were anie waies to be defended by the * * * * coun- 
 cellor at lawe, which was not infinite, but to be conteyned within due 
 limits, and was to be managed without presumption and with due respect 
 to other powers. For which purpose his Majesties said learned councell 
 produced divers presidents of severe proceedinges against lawyers for their 
 contempt in giving craftie and turbulent councell and opynion to their 
 clyents, which nevertheles they said were of an iuferiour nature unto the 
 present offence. 
 
 After the charge of the said Whitlocke, there followed the charge like- 
 wise of Sir Robert Mansell, wliich was to this effecte: That his faulte
 
 APPKNDIX. 117 
 
 Avas not anie tbingc infcriour to the other, for that he had sought undu- 
 tifullie to oppose liim sclle against his Majostie's proceedings and to call 
 liis prerogative in question, which faulte was aggravated — First, in that Mr, 
 Whitelockc had not undertaken this worke but at his iuijKjrtuuity, and 
 upon confidence of the countenance and assistance of the lord achnirall, 
 whicli hee pretendeil. 
 
 Sccondlie, for that he was the meanes to divulge those daungerous posi- 
 tions tending so much to the diminution of liis Majesties royal power. 
 
 And thinllie, in that he being a priucipall officer of the navye (whose 
 dutye did oblige him to advance the same by his best endeavoures) had 
 nevertheles used meanes to hinder soe neccssarie a service as was intended 
 by the same co mission. 
 
 Upon which severall charges the said Sir Robert Mansell and James 
 "Whitlocke, perceiviuge the nature and weight of their offences, did in all 
 humilitie acknowledge their errors, and, flying from his Majesties justice 
 to his grace and clemencie, hiuiiblie begging their lordships to be inter- 
 cessors to his Majfstie on their behalle, that his highnes would be 
 gratiouslie pleased to accept of their submission and penetency, and 
 to remitt anie further penaltie fur the said offenses beyond the imprison- 
 ment they had already endured, and to restore them againe to his favor 
 and gratious opinion, which they would endeavour to deserve by all possi- 
 ble service. 
 
 Upon all which matter and answeres fullie and deliberatlie heard and 
 considered, their lordships, togeither with the judges their assistants, did 
 severallie (begining Avith the highest) declare their judgements, howe much 
 they did condenme the doeinges of the said Sir Kobert Mancell ami Mr. 
 Wliitlocke, and howe greivous and dangci'ous they conceaved their 
 ofiences to bee, opening gravelie and effectuallie the quallitie of them, yet 
 they nevertheles favorablie inclyned unto the sute of the said Sir Robert 
 Mancell and Mr. Whitlocke, to comend their cause to his Majesties grace 
 and clemency, and promised their best assistance and furtherance for the ob- 
 teyning of the same, and in the meane tyme they required them to make 
 severallie the like submissiones in writing, subscri]>ed with their handes, 
 as they had done by worde, and remaunded them unto their severall 
 prisons unlill his Majestie's pleasure were further knowne. 
 
 The next day, (beinge Sonday the 13th of this moiath,) the aforesaid
 
 118 APPENDIX. 
 
 submissions bi-ing written and subscribed, as was enjoyned, and presented 
 to his Majestie's handes on their behalfc, it pleased his Majestie, out of his 
 singular clemency and goodnes, upon the report which had bene made by 
 tlu[ir] lordships uuto him of the former dales proceedinges, to accept of the 
 acknowledgment of their faults and errors, and to receave them againe into 
 his favour. Wherefore order was gyven to send for them, and, thus much 
 being signified unto them both by his Majestie and the councell table, 
 after certainc grave admonitions for their behaviour in future, towards 
 his Majestie and the causes of his prerogative and estate, direcciuns were 
 given for their present inlargeraent.
 
 I N D E X. 
 
 Al)bot, Geo. arclilip. of Canterbury 40, 55, 
 
 75 
 Abergavenny, lord, see Neville, Edwd. 
 Abingdon 29 
 Aldermary churcb 16 
 Alford, sir Wm. 52, 94 
 Allen, Mr. 44 
 
 All Souls college, Oxford 14 
 Altham, baron 33 
 Andrewcs, Lancelot, bp. of Cbichester 13 ; 
 
 of Ely 44 
 
 sir William 7 
 
 Anglesey 100 (2) 
 
 Anne, Queen, wife of James I. 17, 18 
 
 Anthony, — 73 
 
 Armada, Spanish, the 12 
 
 Am, Dr. 50 
 
 Arundel, lady Mary 49 
 
 Ascomb, cousin 72 (2) 
 
 Ashcomb, Oliver 71 
 
 Ashley, sir Fras. 85 
 
 Audley, lord, sec Touohet, Geo. 
 
 Augmentations, court of 23 
 
 Aushani, Mr. 47 
 
 Bacon, Fr;is. lord Vcrulam, lord chancellor 
 
 33, 40, 42, 53, 55, 68, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 
 
 tM , 69, 78, 79, 85 
 
 Bacon, sir Nicholas 53 
 
 Baker, Saml. 45 
 
 Banbury 24 
 
 Banes, — 111 
 
 Bangor, bp. of, see Bayley, Lewis 
 
 Barker, sir Anthony 28, 90 
 
 sir Henry 28 
 
 Barnard, — 111 
 
 Barton, co. Berks 28, 29 
 
 Baskerville, — 27 
 
 Bath and Wells, bp. of, see I^ko, Arthur 
 
 Batson, Mr. 72 
 
 Bayley, Lewis, bp. of Bangor 104 
 
 Bear Wood 1 
 
 quay, the 5 
 
 Beaumont, sir Richd. 71 
 Beche, de la, see Dc la Beche 
 BeconsfieUl, Bucks. 15, IS, 19 
 Bedford, 100 
 
 CO. 43, 102 
 
 Bedford, countess of, see Russell, Lucy 
 
 earl of, sec Russell, Wm. 
 
 Beeches, near Okingham 1, 2 
 
 Bon, Anthony 54 ; sir 63 
 
 Bennet, alderman, 64; Humfn-y 110: sir 
 
 John 46; Mary 21 ; Richd. 110; Thos. 29; 
 
 sir Thos. 21,«;4, 68
 
 120 
 
 INDFX. 
 
 IK'resford, Gcorpc 4; Mary 4 ; Ursula 4 ; al- 
 
 domian of London 4 
 Berkeley, Geo. lord 47 
 Berks. CO. 16. 17, 45, 101, 102 
 Berkshire, archdeacon of 43 
 Berneires, widow 47 
 Bewdley, 85, 89 (3), 91 (2), 95 
 Bickley, Thos. warden of Merton College, 
 
 Oxford, bp. of Chichester 77 
 Billingbear 32, 46 
 Bilson, Thos. bp. of Winchester 47 
 Bingham, de, see De Bingham 
 Bishop's Castle, Shropshire 90, 95 
 Bledlow, CO. Buckingham 49 
 Blount, Chas. lord Montjoy, and afterwards 
 earl of Devonshire 21, 61 
 
 Bluemantle, see St. George, Henry 
 
 Blunt, — 72 
 
 Boar's Head, the, Eastcheap 12 
 
 Bordeaux 5 
 
 Borlace, mr. Ill 
 
 ■ sir John 111 
 
 Borlase, mr. 75 
 
 sir Wm. 63, 70, 90 
 
 Boughton, CO. Northampton 51 
 
 Bourchier, lady 7 
 
 Bow 60 
 
 Boyer, sir AVm. 47 
 
 Bramston, Thos. 70 
 
 Bray 27, 32 
 
 Brecknock 30, 54 
 
 Brereton, sir Thos. 88 
 
 Brian, Richd. 21 
 
 Bridgman, John 71 ; sir John H'S 
 
 Bridgenorth 70 
 
 Bridgewater, earl of, see Egerton, John 
 Brightwell 77 
 
 Brist-.l, bp. of, see Felton, Nicholas; Search- 
 field, Rowland; Wright, Rol.t. 
 
 Bristol, 108 
 
 Britten, sir Henry 70 
 
 Brokhurst, — 5; Joan 5 
 
 Bromley, sir Edwd. 100, 102 
 
 Brooke, Chas. 27; Henry, lord Cobham 27; 
 lord, see Grcville, Fulke; Ralph, York 
 herald 34 
 
 Broom, mr. 99 
 
 Browne, — Mayor of London 17; Cecil 1 
 lady 17, 26, 29, 32 (2). 45, 49, 62, 73; 
 Giles 71; sir Henry 02, 71; sir John 17, 
 26, 29 
 
 Brydges, Geo. lord Chandos 91 
 
 Bryer, sir Wm. 49 
 
 Buckingham, duke of, see Villiers, Geo. 
 
 100 
 
 CO. 15, 17, 27, 28, 53, 60, 62, 
 
 100, 101, 102, 105, 110 
 
 Buckridge, John, bp. of Rochester 16, 20, 
 60, 73, 75 
 
 Bull, Anthony 21, 45 
 
 Bulstrode, Ann 16, 18; Cecill, mother of 
 wife of sir James Whitelocke 15, 17; sister 
 of wife of sir James Whitelocke 17, 18; 
 maid of honour to Katherine of Arragon 
 17, 28; Dorothy 17; Edwd. son of Thomas 
 and father of wife of sir James Whitelocke, 
 15, 17, 26, 28; Eliz. 15; Edwd. son to 
 Richd. 17, 27, 31 ; Geo. 17, 26, 27. 28, 53; 
 Henry 16, 28, 29, 30 (2), 41, 45, 49, 63, 
 70 (2), 72; Mary 16, 45; Richd. 26, 27, 
 28 ; Thos. 17, 26, 28; sir Wm. 26 (2), 71 ; 
 Wm. 27 
 Burnham 4 
 
 Cx.sar, sir Julius, Master of the Rolls, 40 (2), 
 
 45, 75 
 Calveley, sir Richd. 94 
 Calvert, sec. 71, 85
 
 INDEX. 
 
 rji 
 
 CambritlRC 43, 54,59; Christ's Coll. S; Jesus 
 Coll. 44; King'HColI.3,44,50, 51; Queen's 
 Coll. GO; Trinity Coll. 44; eo. 43, 102 
 
 Cantcrhury 43 
 
 archbp. of, sii^ AI)l)ot, George 
 
 Carleton, Dudley 10; sir Dudley, 48; Geo. 
 bp. of LlandafT, and afterwards of Chi- 
 chester 75 
 
 Carlisle, sheriff of lOi! 
 
 Carnarvon, co. 94 
 
 Carr, Robt. visct. Rochester and earl of Sn- 
 mcraet, 29, 46, 57, 58 
 
 Gary, sir Edwd., master of the jewels 41 ; sir 
 Philip 41 
 
 Catesby, sir Wni. 2S ; his father. Hid; of 
 Whiston 53 
 
 Cecill, Robt. earl of Sali.sbury 47 
 
 Thos. earl of Exeter 4 1 
 
 Cliamberlain, John 10 
 
 Chamberleyn. Thos. 22, 23, 33; sir Thos. 78, 
 
 79, 87, 95 (3), 97, 99, 101, 104, 105 
 Chambers, mr. 72 
 Champneys, Gawcn 21 
 Cbandos, lord, see Brydges, Geo. 
 Charlbury, co. Oxford 13 
 Charlcot, co. Warwick 30 
 Charles, prince 31, 84, 85 
 
 his attorney 54, 68, 103 
 
 his solicitor 103 
 
 Charles I. proclaimed at Worcester 1('3 
 
 Chcapside 110 
 
 Cliester 3, 84 (2). 88 (3), 89, 94 
 
 chief justice of 78, 79, 80,86,91 (2), 
 
 104, 105 
 
 CO. 88,94, lol 
 
 Chesterfield, Thos. U. 
 Choyney, sir Fras. 63 
 Chibliorn, mr. 42 
 C.\MD. SOC. 
 
 Chielifster, bp. of, .»<•<■ Andrewes, Lancelot; 
 IJicklcy, Tlios. ; Carleton, George 
 
 Fras. lady 39 
 
 sir Robt. 39 
 
 Chilton, Bucks 15, 17 (2), 25, 27 
 Cholniley, mr. 71 
 Christchurch, Oxford 4, 16, 2'; 
 Christ's College, Cambridge 8 
 Chute, sir Walter 42 
 
 Clapham 7 
 
 Clerk, mr. 45; Wm. 47; sir \Vm. 47, 63 
 
 Clifford, Fras. earl of Cumberland, sheriff of 
 
 Westmerland 106 
 Clifton, mr. 71 
 Clopton 28 
 Cluar29,32, 50 
 
 House 25 
 
 Coggs Coppice 22 
 
 Cokayne, Mary 7; Thomas 7; William 7; 
 sir Wm. 64, 67 (2), 68, 72 
 
 Coke, sir Edwd. 19, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 
 50, 51, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 85; chaplain to 
 60; Eliz. lady, 41, 44, 49; sir Robt. 47; 
 lady (wife of sir Robert) 47 
 
 Colnbrook 28, 105 
 
 Colte, Christopher 7, 11; Elizabeth 7; Joan 
 7; John 4 ; John, of Woodwicks 4, 7; ma- 
 ternal grandfather of sir James ^^■hifp- 
 locko 7; maternal uncle of sir James 
 Whitelocke 7 ; mr. 4, 7; Marj- 4 ; Robert 
 7 ; his son Hiil.; Thomas 7, 16 . Ursula 4 
 
 Compton, sir Henrj- 71 ; lady 54 ; .Spencer 
 lord 91, 92; Wm. carl of Northampton 
 71, 77, 78, 84, 85, 86, 92. 95. 96 
 
 Coppin, sir Geo. 60, 62 
 
 Corfe Ciwtio 41 
 
 Cornwall, co. 102; duchy of 71 (2) 
 
 Cornwallis, sir Ch.-ui. 43 
 U
 
 122 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Cosiiist, ilr. 1 1 
 
 Cottington, iiir. 41 
 
 Cuveiitr.v, Thos. [>^, C>i; sir Thos. 55, 50, 71, 
 
 75, 78, 101 
 (\>\vdrcy, — 3 
 Cranfeiltl, sir Lionel 51, 03, 00, Oi', 75 ("2), 
 
 70, 85, 90 
 Crew, Randall 33, 105 
 
 sir Ranulph 101, 102 
 
 Thos. 33, 41, 42, 07, 69 
 
 Croke, Geo. 15, 19, 20, 21, 44, 73; sir Geo. 
 Idl, 102 (2), 108, 109; Henry, 17, 20; 
 sir Henry 71 ; sir Jolin 15, 17, 24, 25, 28, 
 31 ; Justice K. B. 19, 28, 33, 45, 49, 60, 
 62, 71, 76; Eliz. the old lady 15, 17, 25, 
 28,31; oldmr. 17,24; mrs. 20; Mary 20; 
 Paul 62, 72; Wm. 45; 
 
 Cromwell, sir Oliver 30, 71 
 
 Cumberland, earl of, see Clifford, Fras.; co. 
 31, 102; sheriff of 107 
 
 Curl, mr. 70 
 
 Customs, the farmers of 54 
 
 Daccomb, John 41 
 
 sir 61 
 
 Dambits, Kathcrine 11 
 Dantree 47 
 
 Dantsey 47 
 Dantzic 11 
 Danvers, Henry lonl, afterwards earl of 
 
 Danby 47 
 Darlington 107 
 Darrell, sir Marm. 49, 63 
 Daston, Richd. 71 
 
 Davenant, John, bp. of Salisbury 104 
 Davi<..sirJohn,75,76 (2), 85, 101, 102, Ida 
 Day, Wni. provost of Eton, dean of Windsor, 
 
 bp of Winchester 77 
 
 Dayrell, dr. 62 
 
 De Bingham, Robert, bp. of Salisbury 1, 2 
 Deddington or Denington, co. Oxford 23 
 De laBeche,Agnes2; Robert 2; William 1, 
 
 2,3 
 Denbigh 84 (2), 88, 89 (2), 94 
 Denham, nir. 18; sir John 100, 102 
 Derby, earl of, see Stanley, Wm.; co. 102 
 Desguiercs, mons. governor of Provence 8 
 Devereux, Robt. second earl of Essex 20 
 
 Robert, third earl of Essex 8 
 
 Devon, co. 43, 62, 100, 102; earl of, see 
 
 Blount, Charles 
 Digges, sir Dudley 42 
 Ditton 48, 49 
 Dixon, Wm. 12 
 Doddershall, co. Bucks. 28 
 Doderidge, sir John 97, 100, 102, 108, 109 
 Dogget, mr. 72 (2) 
 Dominis, de. Marc Antonio, archbp. of 
 
 Spalato 75 
 Doncaster 107 
 Donne, John 16 
 Dorchester 90 
 Dormer, — 28 
 
 sir John 70 
 
 Dorsetshire 102 
 Dover Castle 43 
 
 Richd. 60 
 
 Downes 105 
 
 Doyley, Cope 90, 111 ; sir Cope 111 
 
 Drake, — brother of sir Krancis 12 
 
 sir Francis v, 11, 12 (2) 
 
 Drewry, sir Henry 47; old sir Henry 09; 
 
 Robt. 09 
 Dudley, John, duke of Northumberland 52 
 Dudsun, nir. 72 
 Duffield,— 111
 
 INDEX. 
 
 I -J.i 
 
 I)iiiiil)elow, — 111 
 
 Durlcini 107; \>it. of, see Nolle, liiclul.; eo. 
 
 1U2; IIoui>o 5<J 
 Uymock, Ann i'J ; Fnw. -lO ; sir Henry 44, 
 
 45, 4l» 
 Dyuiuke, sir IMwd. 8l> ; Marg. S'J 
 
 Eiuit, Julin 105 
 
 Hdniund, nir. 33, 40 
 
 IMwanl III. 51 
 
 IV. 27, 52 
 
 prince, son of IMumi-iI IV. '27 
 
 VI. 52, 57 
 
 Kgcrton, John, carl ol IJrJd^iwater 71 
 
 Thos. lord cliancellor, baron Ellcs- 
 
 mcre, and afterwards visct. Brackley 33, 
 34, 35, 3<i, 37 (2), 38, 40, 51, 53, 54, 62, 
 63, 64. 113 
 
 Kgliani lUlt 
 
 Egiock, sir Fras. 71 
 
 Ell.ing7, 11,88 (2), 102 
 
 Elizabeth, queen 21, 77 
 
 Elks, Timothy y 
 
 Ellesntere, lord, sec Egerton, Tho.s. 
 
 Eluics, mr. 'JO 
 
 Ely, bp. of, 3(i: Andrewes, Lancelot 
 
 Emcnion, nir. 9 
 
 Enipson, sir Richard 28 
 
 Erdington, co. Warwick 44, 4'J 
 
 Erskinc, Thos. viscount Ecntoii, and after- 
 wards carl of Kellie 4,40 
 
 Ka»e\ 27, 2;t, 43, Hi2, 103; earl of, s.e 
 Devereux, Uobert; Frances countess of 8; 
 House 8 (2), 9 
 
 Estmond, nir. 75 
 
 Elhnip 28 
 
 Eton 88; College 3, 18,41,47, i.'.o", i>i,.u, 
 73; provost of, 43, 50, 62, 77 
 
 Euro, «ir Fras. 89; .Margaret, lady 89; Wm. 
 
 lord 89 
 Everdon, co. Northampton 47 
 Exeter, earl of, «.< Cecil, Thos. 
 Exton 31, 39 
 Eyr, Dorothy 25 
 
 sir Joha 25 
 
 Wm. 26 
 
 sir Wm. 25 
 
 Farington, IJerks. 17 
 
 Farnham 47 
 
 Fawley, cos. Bucks, and Oxford 53, 60, 63, 
 
 89, 95, 105, 111; Court .wii, 59, 62, 110 
 Felton, Nicholas, bp. of Bri.stol 60 
 Fenchurch 5 
 
 Fenton, visct. see Erskine, Thomas 
 Fcrrars, of Tamworth 2S; sir John 23 
 Field, Dr. Richard 4}<, 51 
 
 Theophilus, bp. of Llandatf 104 
 
 Fiennes, Richd. lord Say and .Sele 22 
 
 Fillel's Court 94 
 
 Finch, sir Henry 101 
 
 Fingcst, Bucks. 3 
 
 Flamberds, Essex 17, 26, 2'.l 
 
 Fleet Prison, the 9, 23, 31, 34, 38, 39, 40, 
 
 46, 83 
 Fleet Street 15, 17, 20, 25, 26. 32, 59, 83, 
 
 85, 100 
 Fleetwood, sir Wm. (53 
 Flint 84 (2), 88, 89, 94 (2); co. lo3 
 Foliot, sir Henry 76 
 Ford, mr. 62, 72, 74 
 Fox, sir Edwd. 92 
 Fryer. .Siinun 7; his motluT ihiil. 
 
 Ciarret, >ir John i>>, 71 
 Uascoignc wines 5
 
 12 1 
 
 INDKX. 
 
 CJawily, justic'f it 
 
 Goiilili!*, Allicriciis It 
 
 C-ierartl, Philip '6'-i 
 
 (ilaiiiorgan 54 
 
 Gloucester, bp. of, .<(t Thompson, Giles; 
 
 Goodman, Godfrey 
 Gloucester, dean of 48, 51, C'2; co. 15, 87, 
 
 102 
 Godwin, Fnis. lip. of Hereford 91 
 Godwyn, sir Fros. til! 
 Goodman, Godfrey, li[i. of Gloucester 104 
 Goodyerc, sir Ilenry 9 
 Gostwick, lady 71 
 Gray's Inn 7, 22, 53, 58, 60, 64, 68 (2), 75, 
 
 100, 101 (2), 103 
 Greenwich 40 
 Grenoble 8 
 Grevill, sir Fulkc, afterwards lord Brooke 
 
 44, 71 
 Greyes 111 
 Griffin, John 21, 31 
 Grove, — 3 
 Groyne, the 11 
 Grub Street 13 
 Guildhall 64, 66 
 Guilford, Eliz. lady 49 
 Gunpowder Plot 9 
 Guiiston, widow 27 
 (twemenethc, co. Brecknock 30 
 Gwin, Riehd. 32 
 Gyles, sir Edwd. 43 
 
 Ilackwell, rur. 42 
 Ilam [?], Francis 20 
 llambleden 111 
 Hampden, Christopher 63 
 Hunts, CO 28 
 Harding, nurse 45 
 
 Ilarington, sir Henry 39; sir Jas. 31; sir 
 John 17, 31; John Ist lord 17, 28,29, 30, 
 31,39; John 2nd lord 39, 46; lady 17, 28, 
 31, 40 
 
 Harrison, sir Uiehd. Ill 
 
 Harvey, serjt. Fras, 85, 99, 100, 102, 108 
 
 Heath, Robt. 27, 46, 58. 59, 66, 67 (3), 68 
 (2), 69, 75; Sir Robt. lUl 
 
 Hedgoly Bulstrode 15, 16, 18, 27, 31 
 
 Hedlye, mr. 68 
 
 Heidelberg 31 
 
 Helstone, Cornwall 41 
 
 Henneage, lady 49 
 
 Henry VII, 28 
 
 VIII. 28, 52 
 
 prince 31 
 
 Herbert, Philip, earl of Montgomery 40, 85 
 
 Wm. earl of Pembroke, (^ob, 1630) 
 
 40, 61, 85 
 
 (ob. 1569) 91 
 
 Hereford 16, 51; bp. of, see Godwin, Fras.; 
 
 CO. 87, 102 
 Heron, Essex 18, 29 
 Herrick, sir Wm. 71 
 Hertford, co. 43, 102 
 Hethrington, John 31 
 Heys, Middlesex 50 
 Hicks, sir Baptist 71 
 Hindes, mr 75 
 Hitcham 47; sir Robt. Inl 
 Hobart, Henry, king's attorney 33; sir Henry, 
 
 chief justice of the Common Pleas 83, 100, 
 
 102, 105; sir Miles 111 
 Holbom 76 
 
 Holland, cousin 32; Hugh 4, 71 
 Hopkinson, — 13 
 Horton, co. Bucks 28, 45, 105 (2) 
 Hoskins, mr. 73, 75; John 42, 43, 71
 
 INDKX. 
 
 rj5 
 
 Ilougliton, sir Robt. 95, 1)6, 1*7, 1"1 
 
 llowaril, C'liaw. eurl of Notlingliam, lord 
 admiral 113; Henry, earl of Northampton, 
 lord privy soul 35, 39, -10, 46, 47, 113; 
 Tlios. earl of Arundel 85; Tlios. carl of 
 SutTolk, 35, 37, 4(1, 113; Wni. lord (BclttMl 
 Will) 52 
 
 Ilowson, Julin, lip. of Oxford 77 
 
 Iluchcnson, Kuipli 14 
 
 Hudson, nir. 74 
 
 Huntingdon, co. 100, 102 
 
 Hurley, 111 
 
 Hutton,8ir Richd. 100, In-J 
 
 Hyde, NieholM 42, 43, 71, 105 
 
 Hynde, mr. 47 
 
 Inner Temple, the 15, 1S,31,53, S9, 100(2), 
 
 101 (3). 103 (2), 108 
 Ipswieh 43 
 Ireland 18, 26, 61, 76 (2) 
 
 sir Thomas 68 
 
 Islip 62 
 
 James I. death of 103 
 
 Walter 29 
 
 JenkinsoD, mrs. 72 
 
 Jesus College, Cambridge 44 
 
 Joachimi, sir Albcrtus, ambassador from the 
 
 Low Countries 75 (2) 
 Jonef, Inigo 9 
 
 mr. of Cluar 32, 45 
 
 42, 75 
 
 sir Wm. 80, S3, 97, 99 (2), lOO. lul, 
 
 1(12, IdS (2) 
 
 Jordan, sir Wm. 32 
 
 Kathcrine, first wife of Henry VHI. 17, 28 
 K el la way, — 54 
 
 Kellie, earl of, sec Kntkinc, Thomas 
 
 Ke.,t 12. 43, 101, H-2 
 
 Kew 3j 
 
 Key! way, Uobt. surveyor of the Court of 
 
 Wards 17, 2S, 31 ; CecUio 31 
 Kiliigrew, sir Robt. 41 
 
 sir Wm. 71 
 
 King, John, D.D. HI; bLihopof London 26, 
 
 33,75 
 Kingesmill, — 54 
 King's Bench 9, 23, 30, 33, 51, 57, 59, 
 
 95 (2) 
 King's College, Cambridge 3. 44, 5(i, 51 
 Kingston Bagpuze, co. Berks. 3 t 
 Kingston-upon-Hull IdS 
 Kitson, Wm. Ill 
 Knif, — 27 
 Knight, mr. 72 
 Kniglitly, — 111 
 Knollys, Wm. lord 40, 45 
 Knowles, sir Fras. 27 
 
 Lake, Arthur, bishop of Bath and Wells 
 
 103 
 Lambeth 60 
 Lamson, — 7 
 Lancaster, co. 102; duehy of, chancellor of, 
 
 jitf May, sir Humi)hrey; pramotary of 106, 
 
 107; sherilfof 1(17 
 Lane, Riclul, 71 
 Langley, sir John 4 
 Langly 28 
 Lason, Kdwd. 71 
 l.atten, mr. 30 
 Laud, Wm. dean of Gloucester, president of 
 
 St. John's, archdeacon of Huntingdon, 
 
 bp. of St. David's 51, 77, 90, Ui4 
 Lawnton 62
 
 126 
 
 IN'DKX. 
 
 Lcii, sir lloiiry 11> 
 
 sir James 5G 
 
 sir Uichd. 19 
 
 Rol.t. 72 
 
 Leaghton 111 
 
 Leo, John, treasurer of the Mi<lJle Temple 82; 
 
 air Thos. 63 
 Leicester, co. justices of assise for 102 
 Leigh, sir Fras. 32, 45, 49 
 Lennox, duke of, see Stuart, Lodovick 
 Leopolis, near Civita Vecchia 88 
 Lewknor, sir Richd. 87, 88, 91 
 Ley, James lord, afterwards earl of Marl- 
 borough 97, 100,101,108 (2) 
 Leydall, sir Richd. 90 
 Lichfield 3, 4 
 Liniytayr, nir. 44 
 
 Lincoln, bp. of, sec Mountaigne, Geo.; Neile, 
 Richd.; Williams, John; church of 111; 
 CO. 102 
 Lincoln's Inn 8, 18, 19, 42, 44, 53, 75, 
 
 100 (5), 101 
 Little Munden, Herts 7 
 
 St. Helen's 9 
 
 Littleton, sir Edwd. 89 (2), 90 
 
 Litton, mr. 72 
 
 LlandafT, bp. of, see Carleton, Geo.; l''icld, 
 
 Theophilus 
 Lobthorp 29 
 
 London 4, 5, 6, 7. 8, 12, 16, 32, 41, 45, 50, 
 53, 54, 61. 63, 70, 75, 77, 87, 88, 95, 96, 
 100 '^3), 101 (2), 103, 108,111; hp.of.see 
 King, John; Mountaigne, Geo; the plague 
 in 5, 105 
 Lovelace, sir Richd. To. '.id 
 Low, sir Thos. 67 
 Low Countries, the '■'<-, 4 7 
 Lucye, sir Thos. 3<> 
 
 Ludlow 85, 87, 88 (3), 89, 90, 92 (4), 94, 95 
 Lydall, mr. 45 
 Lyons, Richd. 54 
 
 Magdalen College, Oxford, 32, 61, 88 
 Manners, Roger, earl of Rutland 8 
 Manscl, sir Robt. 40, 113, 114, 117 (3) 
 Marlborough, earl of, see Ley, Jas. 
 Marliury, mr. sherilT of Chester 88 
 March, dr. Jas. Ill 
 Margaret, wife of Henry VI. 27 
 Markham, sir John 52 
 Marshalsea, the 9 
 
 Martin, mr. 9; Richd. 2(', 32, 49, 63, 64 
 Mary, Queen, 52 
 Massiles 8 
 Maxwell, mr. 84 
 Maxye, dr. 29 
 
 May, Hugh, 26, 71 (2); sir Humphrey, 
 chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 20, 
 21, 26, 32, 45, 61, 63,70 (2); Thos 14; 
 Richd. 21, 61 
 Maynard, lady 49; lady (wi<low) 49 
 Medmenham 111 
 Alerchant Taylors, school of 7, 12 
 Merton College, Oxford 43, 44, 47, 57, 59, 
 
 61,73, 77 
 Meux, CO. York 53 
 Middlesex 3 
 
 Middle Temple, the 14, 21, 28, 31. 35, 38, 
 42, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 61, 62. 63, 69, 72, 
 78, 82, 83, 85, 90 (2), 100 (3). 101 
 Monmouth, co. 87 
 
 justices of assise for 1<'2 
 
 Montagu, sir Edwd. 51; Henry, lord chief 
 justice, lord Mandeville, and afterwards 
 earl of Manchester 41, 51, 59, 60, S3, 90, 
 102; sir Edwd. (chief justice) 51 ; Richd.,
 
 INDKX. 
 
 1: 
 
 dean of Ilorefonl 51; sir Syilney 51; 
 
 willow 45 
 ftfunt^oincry 84 (2), 88; earl of, see IlerljiTt, 
 
 I'liilip 
 Monljoy, Lord, xe Blount, Cliarlcs 
 More. Kras. 33, 34, 35 (2); sir Fraa. 54, C.2, 
 
 71, 85; lady 72; Richd. 50,(50; sir Itlolul. 
 
 70, 73 
 Mostiii, tt4 (2); KHz. ill; sir Royer 94; 
 
 Thos. 94 
 Mountaigno, Geo. bp. in succession of Lin- 
 coln and London 44, (jO, 70, 71 
 Mulcaster, Riciid. 7, 12 
 Murray, — 57 
 
 Nash, Hierom 15 
 
 Naunton, sir Robt. 29, 54, 01 , G2 
 
 Nawortli 52 
 
 Ncile, Richd. hp. of Rochester l!»; of Durham 
 
 5!i, 73, ioii, 107 
 Neville, Christopher 43; dr. 44; Edniond, 
 
 earl of Wostnierland 9; Kdwd.4(J; Edwd. 
 
 lord Abergavenny 43, 4(3; sir Ilonry 32, 
 
 46; James 40; R;d|.|i, L-tt earl of West- 
 
 nicrland 4»j 
 Ncwall, dr. 7:^ 
 Xewbiry, nir. 72 
 Newcastle 106, 107 
 Newgate 9 
 Newhall, Essex 10 
 New Inn 14 
 Newport, sir Fr.is. 88 
 Nieols, sir Augustin 52 
 Norfcdk 19, 43, 100, 105, 102 
 Norris, sir Edward, of Englelicbl 4; I'r.us. 
 
 lord, aftcrwanis earl of Berk.sliire 27, 75; 
 
 sir John 4, 27; mr. 73; \Vn>. 27 
 Norroy, sec St. (teorgc, Richd. 
 
 Northern circuit, the 105, 106, I07 
 Northampton 22, 100; archdencun of ItJ; i-o. 
 
 47, 51, 102, 103; earl of, set Howard, 
 
 Henry ; Compton, Wm. 
 Northumberland 102, 1m!, K.T- ,.,rl ,.f ... 
 
 Percy, Henry 
 Nottingham, co. 102 
 
 Oakly, John 90; Richd. 21, 02, 7C, 9o,lll; 
 
 Rowland 90 
 Okingham 1, 2, 3, 45 
 Overbury, sir Nicholas 15, 01, 71, 90 
 Owen, justice, hi.s wife 27; sir Roger 27, 34 
 Oxford 13, 14, 22, 48, 61, 62. 89, 103, 110; 
 bp. of, see Ilowson, John; ChrLstchurch 
 4, 16, 20; Greek reader of 12; library at 
 46; Mag.lalen College 32, Gl, 88; .Merton 
 College 43, 44, 47, 59, 01 ; Queen's Col- 
 lege, provost of 50; .St. John's College 12, 
 15, 16, 21,49, 50, 51,61; co. 19, 21, 53, 
 54, 62, 100(2), 101, 102 
 
 Palmer, mr. 72, 74 
 
 Panton, co. Sussex 25 
 
 Pari.* 8 
 
 Parker, John 07 
 
 Parke.<, nir. 71 
 
 Parlant Park 29 
 
 Peachy, Wm. 54 
 
 Peck, cousin 45, 40 
 
 Pelham, la«ly 28 
 
 Pemliroke, earl of, see Herbert, Wm. 
 
 Percy, ;;u;ipinvder conspirator 9; Henry, e.irl 
 
 of Noitliumbcrland 9, 10,39 
 Perin, John 12 
 Perugia, university of 14 
 Pliilipps, sir Edwd. 23, ;;3, 13, 113 
 Pigot, Serjeant 27, 28, 53
 
 12S 
 
 INDKX. 
 
 Pillinghoar (Billinglicar) 32, 4i) 
 
 Pitt, sir Win. 71 
 
 Planer, — 3 
 
 Pool 89 (3), 1)5 
 
 Pope, Jolin 23; sir Thos. 21 , 23, 21 ; sir Wm. 
 
 21, 22,23, 30; 
 Portugal 11, 61 
 Prague 8 
 Prcscot 3 
 
 alderman C4 
 
 Price, Joan 0, 16 ; George 6; Iluniphrcy 33; 
 
 dr. Theodore 111 ; Thomas 6 
 Prowd, Lewis 19, 33, 44, 53, 60 
 Purbeck, Isle of 41 
 Pyc. Robt. 56, 71; sir Rol.t. 108 (2); sir 
 
 Walter, 54, 70 (2\ 90 
 Pyrton 111 
 
 Queen's College, Cambridge 60 
 
 Radnor 54 
 
 Ramsden, mr. 88 
 
 RiitclifTe, Ralph 71 ; Robert, earl of Sussex 
 
 10 (2) 
 Raynesford, mr. 75; sir Henry 75 
 Read, mr., his sister 54; Thos. 16,23,29, 70; 
 
 sir Thos. 71 
 Reeves, sir Wm. 76 
 Requests, master of 54, 63 
 Richard, — 73 
 Richmond 26 
 Rivers, sir Geo. 71 
 Rives, mr, 73, 74; Wm. 70 
 Rochester, bp. of, see Buckridge, John; 
 
 Neile, Richd.; viscount, see Carr, Robert 
 Rolls, the master of, «t;t CiEsar, John; Philipps, 
 
 Edwd. 
 Rome 8 
 
 Uoper, John, l..r.l Toynham 27, 20, 46, 57, 58 
 Rostock 8 
 
 Rudyerd, sir Benjn. 61, 71, 85 
 Rushton 28 
 
 Russell, Lucy, countess of Bedford 3'.», 40, 
 71(2) 
 
 Wm. earl of Bedford 18 
 
 Ruthin 89 
 
 Rutland, earl of, see Manners, Roger 
 Ruvens, Ralph 12 
 
 Sackville, sir Edwd. 71 
 
 St. David's, bp. of, ^ci Laud, Wm. 
 
 St. Dunstan's 72 
 
 church 15, 17, 20, 25, 26 
 
 St. Dunstan's in the East, parish of 5, G 
 West 20 
 
 St. Giles', London 16, 26 
 
 St. John's College, Oxford 12, 15, 16, 21, 
 
 49, 50,51, 61,73,76, 90 (2) 
 St. George, Richard, Norroy 35 
 
 Henry, Bluemantle 34 
 
 St. Margaret's Church 104 
 St. Martin 's-le-grand 53, 60, 69 (2) 
 St. Pancras, parish of 110 
 St. Paul's Church 64 
 
 Salisbury 11; bp. of, see Tounson, Robt.; 
 Davenant, John; carl of, see Cecill, Robt. 
 Sams, sir John 71 
 
 Sandys, Edwin, archbishop of York 7; sir 
 Edwin 42, 43; Miles 7; his wiilow 7; sir 
 Saml. 42 
 Savill, sir Henry 18, 29, 43, 47, 57, 59, 61, 
 
 77; sir John 43; Thos. 61 
 Say and Sele, lord, see Fiennes, Richd. 
 Scott, Richd. 25 
 
 Searchfield, Rowland, afterwards bp. of 
 Bristol 13, 76
 
 INDEX. 
 
 \2i) 
 
 Scarl, Ann 2/5 
 
 John 18, 25 
 
 Serjeants-at-law, fee to the king on being 
 made 44 
 
 Serjeants' Inn 5!*, 83, Mf), 100 
 
 Sharp, dr. 43 
 
 Sheepwashe, nir. 73 
 
 Shrewsbury 21 
 
 Shropshire 87, 88, 90, 100, 102, 103 
 
 Shute, mr. 58, 5'J, 64, 65, 66, 60 
 
 Shuttleworth, sir Richd. 87, 91 
 
 Siraonson, nir. 44 
 
 Skydniore, rnrs. 27 
 
 Snialewood, — 72 
 
 Smith, dr. 44 
 
 Smithe, Edwd. 73 
 
 Snigg, sir Geo. 54 
 
 Some, dr. — 111 
 
 Somerset, co. 102; carl of, see Carr, Robt.; 
 Edwd. carl of Worcester, Lord Privy Seal 
 37, 49, 75, 85 
 
 Somerton 24 
 
 Sonning 1, 2, 4, 28, 50 
 
 Soper Lane 110 
 
 Sotherton, baron 72 
 
 Southampton 18; co. 102 
 
 South Fleet, Kent 26 
 
 Spalato, arehbp. of, .<ee Dominis, dc, Marc- 
 Antonio 
 
 Spencer, sir Thos. 19, 41 ; sir Wni. 1',' 
 
 Spruceland 102 
 
 Spur royal 106, 107 
 
 Stafford 47, 70, 102, 103 
 
 Stanley, "\Vm. carl of Derby 106, 107 (2) 
 
 Star chamber, the 9, 23, 37, 99 
 
 Staunton I.acy, near Ludlow 94 
 
 Staverton, mr. 32 
 
 Stephens, Thos. 31, 32 
 CAJ[D. ,'^OC. 
 
 Stovcnton, co. Berks. 62 
 Stirrell, Henry 69, 70 
 Stoke Pogis 47, 48, 49, 60 
 Stonor, sir Fraa. 62 
 
 sir Henry 62, 71 
 
 Stuart, Lodovick, duke of Lennox 55 
 
 Sturly, mr. 74 
 
 Suffolk 43, 102 
 
 Suffolk, earl of, see Howard, Thomas 
 
 Surrey 39, 43, 100 (2), 101, 102 
 
 Sussex 102 
 
 Sutton's Ho.Hpital 53 
 
 Sydney, sir Philip 8, 44 
 
 Symons, — , of Pyrton 1 1 1 
 
 Tamworth 28 
 
 TanfeildjSir Lawrence, chief baron l<i'i, lU2, 
 113 
 
 Tanfield, Robt. 71 
 
 Tayler, Jos. 94 
 
 Temple, the 9, 76 
 
 Teynliam, lord, see Roper, John 
 
 Thames Street 5 
 
 Theobalds 84 
 
 Thompson, Giles, bp. of Gloucester 26, 29 
 
 Thorn 28 
 
 Thornborough, John, bp. of Worcester 91 
 
 Tliorp, mr. 72 
 
 Throckmorton, sir John 87 
 
 Tirrell, Eliz, lady IS, 29, 32, 62; sir John 
 18, 29, 62 
 
 Titchbom, mr. 75; sir Rieh.l. 71 ; sir Waller 
 75 
 
 Titchtield 105 
 
 Tothill fields 74 
 
 Touchet, Geo. lord Audley 24 
 
 Toun.son, Robt. lUyin of Wi-stminslcr, after- 
 wards bp. of Salisbury 74 (2), 75 0-) 
 S
 
 i:^() 
 
 INDKX. 
 
 Tower, the D, 42, 43, !'>-2 
 
 Towiiosciul, sir Ilcnry, chief justice of 
 
 Chester 85, SH, 90; sir John 71 
 Townson, dr. GO 
 Traey, sir Thos. 41 
 Trcdway, Riehd. 18 
 Tresham, sir Lewis 28 
 Trevor, sir Thos. solicitor to prince Cliarlos 
 
 103 
 Trinity College, Cambridge 44 
 Trist, Thos. 70 
 Turner, Kdward 71 
 Twickenham 18 
 Twisden, sir AVni. 71 
 Tyrrell, sir John 71 
 
 Unite, the 59 
 
 Unton, sir Alex. 17, 28,31; Cecill 28; sir 
 
 Edwd. 17, 28; Eliz. 28; sir Henry 28 
 Upton church, co. Bucks. 28 
 Uvedale, sir Wm. 70 
 
 Vaux, Riehd. 45, 49 
 
 Vavasor, sir Thos. 63, 69 
 
 Venice 48 
 
 Vere, sir Francis 10, 11 
 
 Vernon, Geo. 108; sir Robt. 71 
 
 Villiers, Geo. duke of Buckingham 54, 55, 
 
 56, 67, 58, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69 (2), 76, 
 
 78, 84, 85, 95 (2), 96 
 
 Wales, 53, 87; President of, see Compton, 
 
 Wm. earl of Northampton 
 Waller, Eliz. 18 
 Wallop, sir Henry 28 
 Wallrond, Jas. 23 
 Walter, sir John 23, 31. 32, 33. 54, 68 (3), 
 
 71. H>3 
 
 Wanstead, Essex 43 
 
 Warburton, justice 62; sir Peter 97 
 
 Ward, mr. 75 
 
 Rowly 71 
 
 Wargrave 111 
 
 Warwick 90; co. 44, 49, 102 
 
 Warr, Wm. Ill (2) 
 
 Way ties, mr. 89 
 
 Weaver, mr. 44 
 
 Webb, dr. Ill; Roger 13 
 
 Weekes, Aquila 73 
 
 Wells 3, 4, 50 
 
 Went worth, Thos. 42, 43 
 
 Westminster 32, 40, 69 (2), 70, 76, 101; 
 Abbey 33, 103; College 19, 33, 53, 96; 
 dean of 44, 60, 62; dean and chapter of 60, 
 69; Hall 80 (2), 104; Palace of 59 
 
 Westmcrland 102; sheriff of 106,107; earls 
 Edmond and Ralph, of, see Neville 
 
 Wharton's Anglia Sacra ii 
 
 Whiston 53 
 
 Whitchurch, Oxon 2, 88 (,2) 
 
 White, — 111 
 
 Whitehall 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 113 
 Whitelocke, — , wife of John Whitelock 3 ; 
 Bulstrode, son of sir James 15, 76, 111; 
 Cecill, daughter of sir James 17; Dorotliy, 
 daughter of sir James 20, 26; Edmund, 
 capt. brother of sir James iv, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
 16; Eliz. daughter of sir James 15,25, 
 94; wife of sir James 15, 29, 38, 49, 50, 
 69, 92, 94, 110; sir James 5, 10, 12, and 
 passim ; James, grandson of sir James 110; 
 James, son of sir James 26; James, son of 
 Riehd. brother of sir James 88; Jerome, 
 uncle of sir James 4; Joan 5; Joan, 
 daughter of Sir James 18, 19; John 32, 
 72; John, cousin of sir James 4; John,
 
 INDEX. 
 
 131 
 
 father of Williaiu, who was cousin of .sir 
 James 2, 3; John, husband of Agnes dc 
 la Deehe 2; Mary, daughter of Sir James 
 16, 25; Richard, brother of Sir James v. 
 5, 11, 32, 72,88, 102; Richd. cousin of sir 
 James 72; Richard, fatlier of sir James 
 ii. 1, 4; Richard, grandfather of sir James 
 1, 3; Thos.32(2); William, brother of sir 
 James v. 5, 11, 32, 45; William, cousin of 
 sir James 1, 2,3; William, great-grand- 
 father of sir James, 3; William, son of 
 Jerome 4; William, uncle of Sir James ii. 3 
 
 Whitney, co. Hereford 3f>; Eustace 30; sir 
 Robert 30 
 
 Whitton, mr. 70 
 
 Wilkinson, dr. principal of Magdalen Hall, 
 Oxford 88 
 
 Williams, sir David 19, 22, 23, 30, 77; sir 
 Henry 30; John, lord of Thame 30; John, 
 dean of Westminster, bp. of Lincoln, lord 
 keeper 60 (2), 89, 96 (4), 97 (3), 99, 
 110, 111 ; sir Richd. alias Cromwell 30 
 
 AV'illis. Eras. 12, 14 
 
 Wilson, sir Thomas 71 (2) 
 
 Wilts, CO. 25, 100, 101, 102 
 
 Winch, sir Humphrey, judge of the Common 
 Pleas 76, 100, 102 
 
 Winchester 10, 11 
 
 bp. of, see Bilson, Thos. 
 
 Windebank, Eras. 71 (2), 111 
 
 Windsorl6,18, 26,28. 47, 48, 51, 75; Andr. 
 25, 71; canons of 111; Castle 48; dean 
 and canons of 29, 94 
 
 Winwood, sir Ralph 32, 39, 47, 48, 49, 56, 
 61 
 
 Wiseman, mr. 62 
 
 M'itiu'V, CO. Oxfonl 21 
 
 Wittenburg 8 
 
 Wolsey, card. 17, 24 
 
 Wolstenholme, sir John 71, 72 
 
 Wood, mr. 1 4 
 
 Woodcock, alderman 7 
 
 Wood Eton, CO. Oxford 28 
 
 Woodford, Robert 4 
 
 Woodhouse, sir Wm. 62 
 
 Woodstock 16, 19, 40, 89 
 
 Woodwicks, Herts. 4 
 
 Worcester 103; bp, of, see Thornborough, 
 
 John; earl of, see Somerset, Edwd.; co. 
 
 87, 101,102 
 Worms, Germany 31 
 Wormleighton, mr. 72 
 Wotton, Edwd. lord 40 
 Wrexham 89 
 Wright, Geo. 12; Robt. bp. of Bristol 104, 
 
 111; Tho.s. 12 
 Wrighte, Dorothy, lady, 20, 26; dr. 50; 
 
 parson 47; sir Geo. 45, 71 ; sir Robert, 20, 
 
 26 
 Wroxton, co. Oxford 21 
 Wycombe, co. Bucks. 62, 84 
 Wynwood, Jas. 47 
 Wyot 28 
 
 Yarnton, Oxfordshire 19 
 
 Yelverton. sir Christopher 22, 28, 30, 53, 77; 
 
 sir Henry, king's attorney 53, 54, 55 (2), 
 
 57, 59, 73, 75, 103; old lady 28 
 York 100; CO. 43, 53, 102, 107 (2); sheriff 
 
 of 107 (2); herald, see Brooke, Ralph; 
 
 House 62, 84 ; mayor of 106, 107 (3) 
 
 Zouche, sir Edwd. 32, 63, G9, 71; Edwd. 
 lord 91
 
 WliSTMI.NSTliU : 
 
 J. li. NICHOLS AM) SONS, PRINTKRS, 
 
 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.
 
 THE 
 
 CAMDEN 8 JiUi SOCIETY, 
 
 FOR THE PUBLICATION OF 
 
 EARLY HISTORICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS. 
 
 Ar a General Meeting of the Camden Society held at No. 25, Parliament 
 Street, Westminster, on Monday, the 3rd day of May, 1S5S, 
 
 John Bruce, Esq., thk Director, ix the Chair, 
 
 The Director having opened the business of the Meeting, 
 
 The Secretary read the Report of the Council agreed upon at their 
 meeting of the 21st of April, whereupon it was 
 
 Resolved, That the Report be received and adopted, and tiuit the 
 Thanks of the Society be given to the Director and Council for their services. 
 
 Thanks were then voted to the Local Secretaries and to the Editors 
 of the Publications for the past year. 
 
 Then it was Moved, Seconded, and Resolved Unanimously, That 
 This Meeting desires to exprc-ss its strong sense of the loss which the 
 Camden Society has sustained in the Death of its President, the late 
 Right Hun. The Lord Bkayurookk. The interest which for many years 
 he took in the welfare of the Society, his application of his own literary 
 talent to its service in the Editorship cf the Autobiography of Sir John 
 Bramston, and his conduct as President, both in the Council and at the 
 general meetings — always able and impartial — deservedly placed him high 
 in the estimation of the Society, and rendered his decease a subject of 
 universal rccrret.
 
 2 ANMVERSAIIY MEETING OF IHoJ. 
 
 The Society oticrs to the family of their late President a sincere expres- 
 sion of their condolence and sympathy on this melancholy occasion, and 
 with tliat view directs that a copy of these Resolulions be respectfully 
 transmitted to the Right Hon. The present Lord. 
 
 The Secretary then read the Report of the Auditors, agreed upon at 
 their Meeting of the 2 1st of April, whereupon it was 
 
 Resolved, That the Report of the Auditors be received and adopted, 
 and that the Thanks of the Meeting be given to the Auditors for their 
 
 trouble. 
 
 Thanks having been voted to the Treasurer and Secretary, the 
 
 Meeting proceeded to the Election of Officers, when 
 
 The Earl Jermyn, M.P., F.S.A. 
 
 was elected President of the Society ; and 
 
 William Henry Blaauw, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. 
 
 John Buuce, Esq. V.P.S.A. [Director] 
 
 John Pay'ne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. ^Treasurer] 
 
 William Durrant Cooper, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Bolton Cornev, Esq. M.R.S.L. 
 
 James Crosby, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 John Forster, Esq. 
 
 Edward Foss, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Thomas W. King, Esq. F.S.A., York Herald, 
 
 The Rev. Lambert B. Larking, M.A. 
 
 Peter Levesque, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Sir Frederick Madden, K.H., F.R.S. 
 
 Frederic Ouvry, Esq. Treas. S.A. 
 
 William John Thoms, Esq. F.S.A. [Secretary] and 
 
 William Tite, Esq. M.P., F.R.S., F S.A. 
 were elected as the Council of the Society ; and 
 
 George R. Corner, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Robert Porrett, Esq. F.S.A., and 
 
 William Salt, Esq. F.S.A. 
 were elected Auditors of the Society ; for tlic year then next ensuing. 
 
 Thanks were then voted to the Director for his able conduct in the 
 Chair, and the great interest always taken by him in the welfare of the 
 Societv.
 
 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
 
 OF 
 
 THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 
 
 ELECTED 2nd MAY, 1857. 
 
 It is with feelings of deep regret that the Council have to record, as one 
 of the events of the past year, the death of the Right Hon. the Lord 
 BiiAvnuooKE, the second President of this Society. Among his contri- 
 butions to literature Pepys's Diary, the History of Audley End, the Letters 
 of the Cornwallis Family , and the Autobiography of Sir James Bramston, 
 are works which occupy an important position in historical and topo- 
 graphical literature. This Society is not merely indebted to him for the 
 editorship of the last named of these works. Before he was elected 
 President of the Society he took an active part in the Council, and after 
 his election was a frequent attendant at their meetings. Failing health 
 ultimately prevented his doing so except at long intervals, but in his 
 communications with the Council he ever evinced a due sense of the 
 importance of this Society, and exhibited the most anxious desire to 
 promote its welfare. The Society will no doubt express in the strongest 
 manner their regret on this melancholy occasion, and their sympathy and 
 condolence with the family of their late President. 
 
 The Council refer with satisfaction to the Report of the Auditors for 
 proof of the continued prosperity of the Society. It will be seen that, 
 during the past year, the funded projjcrty invested in the names of the 
 Trustees has been increased from i^y74 K'ts. ^d. to £]01G :is. \d. 
 
 The Council have appointed The Reverend John Hksly, D.C.L. of 
 Long Benton, Local Secretary for Newcastle-upon-Tyne and its neigh- 
 bourhood. 
 
 In addition to the President of the Society, the Couiu^il have to regret 
 the deaths during the past year of the following Members : — 
 
 W. WixGFiELD Baker, Esq. 
 Charles Bellamy, Esq., D.C.L. 
 
 RoHEltT BlCKEUSTl/ni, Esq.
 
 4 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1858. 
 
 The Rev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L. F.S.A. 
 
 The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, LL.D. F.R.S. 
 
 John Disney, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 The Earl Fitzwilliam. 
 
 The Lord Handyside. 
 
 John Kenyon, Esq. 
 
 G. W. Newell, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Richard Parkinson, B.D. F.S.A. 
 
 Charles E. Rumbold, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Walter Sxeyd, M.A. 
 
 To them must be added the name of a nobleman to whom the Camden 
 Society, in common with other institutions for the promotion of English 
 Literature, was under many obligations. To his Grace the late Duke of 
 Devonshire this Society was indebted for its second publication, Bishop 
 Bale's Play of King Johan, and shortly before his death the Duke placed 
 in the hands of Mr. Collier a volume of the Letters of Thomas Savile 
 Lord Halifax, and his brother, with a view to such a publication from 
 them as should be deemed right by the Council. 
 
 The Books issued since the last General Meeting have been : — 
 
 1. Journal of the Very Rev. Rowland Davies, LL.D., Dean of Ross, and after- 
 wards Dean of Cork, from March 8, 1689, to Sept. 29, 1690. Edited by Richard 
 Caulfield, B.A. 
 
 A volume which has many claims on the attention both of the local and 
 general historian. 
 
 2. The Domesday of St. Paul's ; a Description of the iNLinors belonging to the 
 Church of St. Paul's in London in the year 1222. Edited by the Ven. William 
 Hale, ^LA., Archdeacon of London. 
 
 A most important work, of especial interest to the London Topographer, 
 and of great value with reference to our early ecclesiastical and social 
 history. The labours of the Editor, the Venerable A kciideacon Hale, 
 to the extent and success of which the Council bear wiUing testimony, 
 have set forth this work to the best advantage. Its great value has been 
 already made apparent in the History of Latin Christianity by the Dean of 
 St. Paul's, and it cannot be doubted that, to the honour of the Editor 
 and the Society, it will take rank, on equal terms, both on the score of 
 historical importance and careful Editorship, with the most valuable pub- 
 lications of its class.
 
 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1858. 5 
 
 During the past year the Council have added the following works to 
 the list of suggested publications : — 
 
 The Liber Famelicus of liulstrode Wliilelock. To be edited by John Bkuce, 
 Esq VP.S.A. 
 
 Narratives of the Days of the Kefonnation, chiefly selected from the Papers of 
 John Foxe the Martyrologist. To be edited by .John (Jougii Nichols, Esq. E.S.A. 
 
 The Journals of Richard Symonds, an Officer in the Royal Army temp Charles I. 
 To be edited by Charles E. Long, Esq. M.A. 
 
 Letters of George Lord Carew, afterwards Earl of Totnes, to Sir Thomas Roe. 
 To be edited by John ]\L\clean, Esq. E.S.A. 
 
 In addition to these more extensive works the Council have accepted 
 several contributions towards a new volume of The Camden Miscel- 
 lany. 
 
 In closing their Report the Council beg to congratulate the Society on 
 the important steps now taking by the Master of the Rolls (with the 
 sanction of the Government) for the promotion of English Historical Lite- 
 rature, by the publication of Calendars of our State Papers and editions of 
 our Early Chronicles. When this Society was instituted, all publication 
 of historical materials at the expense of Government had been suspended. 
 Nor was there any other channel open by which such valuable books as 
 the Domesday of St. Paul's, and many others of this Society's works, 
 could be made known. If the labours of this Society — imperfect substi- 
 tute as they may have been — have partially supplied the void, or led the 
 way to a state of things more creditable to us as a peoj)le conscious of 
 the benefit of sound historical literature, the fact is one of which the 
 Society may feel proud. Whilst those publications are in progress some 
 portion of the original design of the Society will probably fall into partial 
 abeyance. Such books as the Chronicles of Joscelin dc Brakcloiul, Ris- 
 hanger, and Peterborough, with the others before mentioned, will now find 
 other channels of publication. But this is not a circumstance which will 
 be in any degree detrimental to the Society. On the contrary, the limita- 
 tion of our operations to Documents, Letters, Diaries, Poems, and other 
 works not contemplated by the Master of the Rolls, will probably tend to 
 advance the interest and popularity of the Society's publications, and will 
 justify the Council in printing historical illustrations of a more recent date. 
 
 By direction of the Council, 
 
 John Brice, Director. 
 Wii,MAM J. TiioMs, Secretary.
 
 REPORT OF THE AUDITORS, 
 
 Dated April 21st, 1858. 
 
 We, the Auditors appointed to audit the Accounts of the Camden Society, report 
 to the Society, that the Treasurer has exhibited to us an account of the Receipts and 
 Expenditure from the 1st of April, 1857, to the 31st of March, 1858, and that we 
 have examined the said accounts, with the vouchers relating thereto, and find the same 
 to be correct and satisfactory. 
 
 And we further report, that the following is an Abstract of the Receipts and 
 Expenditure during the period we have mentioned. 
 
 Receipts. £. s. d. 
 
 Balance of last year's account .. .. 174 4 4 
 
 Received on account of Members 
 whose Subscriptions were in ar- 
 rear at the last Audit 115 
 
 The like on account of Subscrip- 
 tions due 1st May last (18.57) .. 342 
 
 The like on account of Subscriptions 
 
 due 1st May next 1/0 
 
 By compositions received from five 
 
 Members 50 
 
 One year's dividendon £^974 \Gs.3d. 
 3 per Cent. Consols, standing in 
 tlie names of the Trustees of the 
 Society, deducting Income Tax. , 28 7 9 
 
 £^726 12 1 
 
 Expenditure. 
 
 By Purchase of Stock (£41 Gs. \0d.) 
 
 Paid for printing and paper 750 copies of "Trevelyan 
 
 P.i])ers, Vol. I." 
 
 The like of 750 co[)ies of " Diary of Dean Davies ". . . . 
 Paid for binding tiOO copies of " Knights Hospitallers " 
 
 The like of GOO copies of " Trevelyan Papers " 
 
 The like of 600 copies of " Davies's Diary " 
 
 Paid for " Index to Domesday of St. Paul's " 
 
 Paid for delivery and transmission of 600 copies of 
 
 "Davies's Diary," with j)aper for wrappers, &c 
 
 Paid for Advertisements 
 
 Expenses connected with the transfer of Stock to New 
 
 Trustees on the retirement of Sir Henry Ellis 
 
 One year's payment for keeping Accounts and General 
 
 Correspondence of the Society 
 
 Paid for Miscellaneous Printing 
 
 Paid for postage, carriage of parcels, and other petty 
 
 cash expenses 
 
 Balance by one Composition £10 
 
 bv Cash 292 3 10 
 
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 And we, the Auditors, further state, that the Treasurer has reported to us, that 
 over and above the present balance of £302 Ss. lOd. there are outstanding various sub- 
 scriptions of Foreign Members, of Members resident at a distance from London, &c. 
 which the Treasurer sees no reason to doubt will shortly be received. 
 
 Robert Porkett, ) . .. 
 
 Auditors. 
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 Restoration of Kiiifr Kchvard \\. 
 
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