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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25924	Articles of accusation exhibited by the Commons House of Parliament now assembled against St. John Bramston, Knight, Sr. Robert Berkley, Knight justices of His Majesites bench, Sr. Francis Crawley, Knight, one of the justices of the Common-pleas, Sr. Humphrey Davenport, Knight, Sr. Richard Weston, Knight, and Sr. Thomas Trevor, Knight, barons of His Majesties Exchequer.		1641 (1641)	Wing A3833; ESTC R38534	30,976	35

William Jones George Crooke Thomas Trevor George Vernon Robert Barkley Francis Crawley Richard Westone 6. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and duly sworne as aforesaid did on the _____ deliver his opinion in the Exchequer Chamber against Iohn Hampden Esquire in the Case of Ship-mony that hee the said Iohn Hampden upon the matter and substance of the Case was chargeable with the money then in question A coppie of which proceeding and judgement the Commons of this present Parliament have delivered to your Lordships 7. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and one of the Justices of Assize for the County of Yorke did at the Assizes held at Yorke in Lent 1636. deliver in his charge to the grand Iurie that it was a lawfull and inseparable flower of the Crowne for the King to command not onely the Maritime Counties but also those that were In-land to finde ships for the defence of the Kingdome And then likewise falsely and maliciously affirmed that it was not his single judgement but the judgement of all his brethren witnessed by their subscriptions And then also sayd that there was a rumour that some of his Brethren that had subscribed were of a contrary judgement but it was a base and unworthy thing for any to give his hand contrary to his heart and then wished for his owne part that his hand might rot from his arme that was guiltie of any such crime when as he knew that Mr. Justice Hullen and Mr. Justice Cro●k● who had subscribed were of a contrary opinion and was present when they were perswaded to subscribe and did subscribe for conformitie onely because the major number of the Judges had subscribed And he the sayd Sir Robert Berkley then also said that in some Cases the Judges were above an Act of Parliament which said fals malitious words were uttered as aforesaid with intent and purpose to countenance and maintaine the said unjust opinions and to terrifie his Majesties Subjects that should refuse to pay Ship-money or seek any remedie by Law against the said unjust and illegall taxation 8. That whereas Richard Chambers Merchant having commenced a suit for trespasse and false impr●sonment against Sir Edward Bromfield Knight for imprisoning him the said Chambers for refusing to pay Ship-mony in the time that the said Sir Edward Bromfield was Lord Maior of the Citie of London in which sure the said Sir Edward Bromfield did make a speciall justification The said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench in Trinity Term last then sitting on the Bench in the said Court upon debate of the said case between the said Chambers and Sir Edward Bromfield said openly in the Court that there was a rule of Law and a rule of government And that many things which might not be done by the rule of Law might be done by the rule of government and would not suffer the point of legalitie of Ship-money to be argued by the said Chambers his Councell all which opinions declarations words and speeches contained in the third fourth fifth sixth seventh and eighth Articles are destructive to the fundamentall Laws of this Realme the Subjects right of propertie and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament to the petition of right which resolution in Parliament and petition of right were well known to him and resolved and enacted when hee was the Kings Sergeant at law and attendant in the Lords house of Parliament 9. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Judges of the Court of Kings Bench and being in commission of the Peace and duly sworn to execute the office of a Justice of Peace in the Countie of Hertford on or about the seventh of Ianuary 1638. at which time the generall Sessions of the Peace for the said Countie were there holden The said Sir Robert Berkley then and there sitting on the Bench did revile and threaten the grand Jurie returned to serve at the said Sessions for presenting the removall of the communion Table in All Saints Church in Hertford aforesaid out of the place where it anciently and usually stood and setting it Altar-waies against the Lawes of this Realme in that Case made and provided as an innovation in matters concerning the Church the said grand Jurie having dilivered to them in charge at the said Sessions by Master Sergeant Atkins a Justice of the Peace of the said Countie of Hertford that by the oath they had taken they were bound to present all innovations concerning Church matters And he the said Sir Robert Berkley compelled the fore-man of the Jurie to tell him who gave him any such information and thereby knowing it to be one Henry Browne one of the said grand Jurie he asked the said Browne how he durst meddle with Church matters who affirming that in the said charge from Master Sergeant Atkins the said Jurie was charged to doe he the said Sir Robert Berkley told the said Browne hee should therefore finde suerties for the good behavior and that he the said Sir Robert Berkley would set a great fine on his head to make him an example to others and thereupon the said Browne offered sufficient baile but he the said Sir Robert Barkley being incensed against him refused the said baile and committed the said Browne to prison where he lay in Irons till the next morning and used to the said Brown and the rest of the Iurors many other reviling and terrifying speeches And said he knew no Law for the said presentment and told the said Browne that hee had sinned in the said presentment And he compelled the said grand Jurors to say they were forty for what they had done in that presentment and did bid them to trample the said presentment under their feet and caused Browne to teare the said presentment in his sight And he the said Sir Robert Berkley when as Iohn Houland and Ralph Pemberton late Maior of Saint Albons came to desire his opinion on severall Indictments against John Browne Parson of Saint Albons and Anthony Smith Vicar of Saint Peters in Saint Albons at the quatter Sessions held at the said towne of Saint Albons on the foure and twentieth of June 1639. for the removall of the Communion Table out of the usuall place and not administring the Sacrament according to Law in that Case provided He the said Sir Robert Berkley then told them that such an Indictment was before him at Hertford and that he quashed the same and imprisoned the Promoters by which threatning and reviling speeches unjust actions and declarations he so terrified the Jurors in those parts that they durst not present any Innovations in the Church matters to then great griefe and trouble of their consciences And whereas severall Indictments were preferred against Iohn Brook Parson of Yarmou●h by Iohn Ingram and Iohn Carter

command from his Majesty being procured to the Judges and sent to them by William Noy Esquire his Majesties then Attorney generall to deliver their opinions touching the question whether Corne was such victualls as was intended to have the price rated within the said Statute In answer to which demand the said Sir Robert Rerkley then being one of his Majesties Justices of the Court of Kings Bench in furtherance of the said unlawfull charge endevoured to be imposed as aforesaid he thirtieth day of Novem in the eight yeare of his now Hajesties Reigne did deliver his opinion that Corne was such victuall as was intended to have the price rated within the said Statute which said opinion was contrary to Law and to the plaine sence and meaning of the said Statute and contrary to his owne knowledge and was given and delivered by him with a purppose and intention that the said unlawfull charge might be imposed upon the Subject 3. That an information being preferred in the Court of Star-Chamber by the said William Noy his Majesties then Attorney generall against Iohn Overman and fifteene other Soape-makers Defendanes charging them with severall pretended offences contrary to divers Letters Patents and Proclamations touthing the making and uttering Soape and using the trade of Soape-makers and other offences in the said Information mentioned whereunto the Defendants did plead and demurre as to part and answer to other part of the said Information And the said Plea and demurrer being over ruled for that the particulars therein insisted upon would appeare more fully after answer and proofe therefore the Defendants were ordered to answer without prejudice and were to be admitted to such exceptions to the said Information and advantages of the matter of the Plea and demurrer upon the hearing as shall be materiall and accordingly the Defendants did put in their answers and set forth severall Acts of Parliament Letters Parents Charters Customes and Act of Common Councell of the City of London and other matters materially conducing to their defence and in conclusion pleaded not guilty The said Sir Robert Berkler then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench upon the 30. day of March in the eighth yeare of his Majesties now Reigne upon an Order of Reference to him and others by the said Court of Star-Chamber to consider of the impertinency of the said answers did certifie the said Court of Star-chamber that the whole answers excepting the foure words and ten last lines should be expunged leaving thereby no more substance of the said answers then the Plea of not guilty And after upon a Reference to him and others by order of the said Court of the impertinency of the Interrogatories and depositions of witnesses taken on the Defendants part in the same case the said Sir Robert Berkley upon the second day of M●y in the eighth yeare of his now Majesties Reigne certified that nine and thirty of the said Interrogarories and the deposi●ions upon them taken should bee suppressed with answers except as aforesaid and depositions although the same did containe the said Defendants most materiall defence Yet were expunged and suppressed according to the said certificates both which said certificates were contrary to Law and Justice and contrary to his the said Sir Robert Berkley's owne knowledge and contrary to the said former order whereby the advantages were saved to the Defendants as aforesaid And by reason thereof the said Iohn Overman and the said other fifteene Defendants were sentenced in the said Court of Star-chamber to be committed prisoners to the Fleet and disabled from using their trade of Soap-makers And one of them fined in a thousand five hundred pounds two of them in a thousand pound a peece foure of them in a thousand Marke a peece which fines were estreated into the Exchequer without any mitigation And the said Defendants according to the said sentence were imprisoned and deprived of their trade and livelihood tending to the utter rnine of the said Defendants and to the overthrow of free trade and contrary to the liberty of Subjects 4. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Kings Bench and having taken an oath for the due administration of Justice according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme to his Majesties Liege people on or about the last of December subscribed an opinion in haec verba I am of opinion that as where the benefit doth more particularly redound to the good of the Ports or Maritime parts as in case of Pyracy or D●predations upon the Seas there the charge hath beene and may be lawfully imposed upon them according to presidents of former times so where the good and safety of the Kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole Kingdome in danger of which his Majesty is the onely Judge there the charge of the defence ought to be borne by all the Realme in generall this I hold agreeable both to Law and reason 5. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and duely sworn as aforesaid In Febru 1636. subscribed an extrajudiciall opinion in answer to questions in a letter from his Majesty in haec verba Charles R. When the good and safety of the Kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole Kingdome in danger Whether may not the King by writ under the great Seale of England command all the Subjects of this Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victualls and Munition and for such time as he shall thinke fit for the defence and safeguard of the Kingdome from such danger and perill And by Law compell the doing thereof in case of refusall or refractorinesse and whether in such case is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoyded C. R. May it please your most excellent Majesty We have according to your Majesties command severally every man by himselfe and all of us together taken into serious consideration the Case and Question signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Royall Letter And we are of opinion that when the good and safety of the Kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole Kingdome in danger your Majesty may by writ under the great Seale of England command all your subjects of this your Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuall and Munition and for such time as your Majefly shall thinke fit for the defence and safeguard of the Kingdome from such danger and perill And that by Law your Majesty may compell the doing thereof in case of refusall or refractorinesse And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoyded Iohn Bramston Iohn Finch Humphrey Davenport Iohn Denham Richard Hutton