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A77341	A breviate of a sentence given against Jerome Alexander Esquire, an utter barrester of Lincolns-Inne, in the court of Star-chamber, the 17th day of November, in the second yeer of the raign of our soveraign Lord King Charls, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. With exceptions taken to the said sentence, to unfold the iniquity thereof. With a short narrative of divers other passages and oppressions, wherewith he hath been also grieved in other times of his life, both before and since. Printed for the satisfaction of his friends, against those many calumnies and aspertions raised thereupon to blemish him in their opinion, and in the opinion of all others with whom he hath to do.		1644 (1644)	Wing B4410; Thomason E1066_2; ESTC R211322	183,530	157

A Breviate of a Sentence given AGAINST JEROME ALEXANDER Esquire An Utter Barrester of Lincolns-Inne In the Court of Star-Chamber the 17th day of November in the second yeer of the Raign of our Soveraign Lord King Charls of England Scotland France and Ireland c. With Exceptions taken to the said Sentence to unfold the Iniquity thereof With a short Narrative of divers other passages and Oppressions wherewith he hath been also grieved in other times of his life both before and since Printed for the Satisfaction of his Friends against those many Calumnies and aspertions raised thereupon to blemish him in their opinion and in the opinion of all others with whom he hath to do PSALM 118.6 7 8 9. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do unto me the Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in man it is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in Princes PSAL. 9.13 14. Have mercy then upon me O Lord consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death that I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Sion LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1644. To the Reader A Working Vessell is saved from breaking by a vent a heart oppressed with sorrows eased when it hath revealed its discontents I have long laboured under many afflictions and oppressions and to this houre could yet never finde Justice at leisure to examine my Complaint the vinegar of which delay hath been as ill to me as the injustice which I have received whiles thus my Calamities have been prolonged encreased too by common Fame and though in this time my innocence hath cleered the main debt yet have I been undone with the Arrerages of the suspition which is an arrow of slander that pierceth the inward parts men being apt to believe Relations as they come to them that a good man oftentimes may deliver untruths by here-say from the credit of one he trusteth and thereby wrong the reputation of him he knows not and the innocent thus many times may suffer reproach undeservedly For the satisfaction therefore of my acquaintance I have Printed this Map of my misery untill the time shall come that my cause may be rightly judged Psa 105.19 20. and that in the interim I may not lye under the guilt of those slanders wherewith I have been blemished chosing rather that my enemy should eate my heart than a friend should grieve it as it is much better to dye of the meate one liketh not then to surfet of the meate one loves a man is not therefore unworthy because he hath had disasters follow him at the heels for the whistling whirl-wind must blow before Elias be rapt up to heaven great and mighty fishes are not bred in small and sweet waters but in the Salt-sea as brave Spirits by difficult attempts become victorious a fruitfull tree though the bark be bitter yet the fruit is sweet though a man may seem harsh in the more strict performance of his duty yet is it profitable to the publique nor shall you ever finde any cudgells thrown at an Apple tree that bears onely leaves no man was ever envied for evill t is vertue that hath so many enemies for a bad man is to himself the worst and needs no other enemy to undo him then his own desires as Midas made his Idoll become his ruin thus we hate the Foxes advise thovgh never so current the Wolfs skin doth detect his Counsell in persons faulty we suspect truth and therefore it was observed of Aristides that he was wont to propose such advices as he knew did conduce unto the Publique weal by some other men and not from himself lest Themistocles out of hatred of his person should have with stood and impedimented a generall good as a fire made of green wood which is fed with it as fewell but quenched with it as 't is green and thus when the Murtle tree will quickly rot the Sethim wood cannot be eate with wormes the Saphire will not crack when the flint is quickly shivered in peeces when the evill man like him in the Philosopher who thought where ever he went that he saw his own picture walk before him unto a wise man you can do no wrong who like a good souldier will keep his rank receive with thanks whatsoever falls that which is constant we say doth passe for excelten 't is true in the use of good things as it is in sufferings for the truth for thus the malice and venome of an enemy too may by wisdom be converted into a medicine and by managing become a benefit which was by him intended for an injury or to use the similitude of Plutarch as healthy and strong beasts do eate and concoct Serpents whereas weak stomacks do nauseate at delicates so wise men do exceedingly profit by the hatred of their enemies whereas fools are corrupted with the love of their friends and an injury doth one man more good than a curtesie doth another as wind and thunder when they trouble the ayre do withall purge it whereas a long Calm doth dispose it unto putrifaction the same whetstone that takes from a weapon doth likewise give it an edge 1 Sam. 13.30 and sharpens it as the Israelites when there was no Smith amongst them 1 Sam. 13.30 did sharpen their instruments with the Philistims so an enemy serves to quicken and put an edge upon those vertues which by lying unexercised may contract rust and dulnesse and many times when the reasons of the thing it self cannot perswade the fear of giving advantage will over-rule a man lest hereby he gives his foe matter of insultation the eye and neerenesse of an Adversary exciteth Caution and diligence and makes a mans life more fruitfull and orderly then otherwise it would have been like a sink by a house side it makes all the house the cleaner as those Roses and Violets are sweetest which grow neer unto Garlick and other strong sented Herbs because these draw away to them any fetid or noxious nonrishment and as vermine do ever devour the purest Corn and moaths eate into the finest Cloath and the Cautharides blasts the swetest flowers so envie doth ever gnaw upon that which is most beautifull in another whom it hateth poyson never works where it finds no heat envie still follows the better part as the Vulture it draws sicknesse from a persum a rancorous nature trouble from the good it sees in him he hateth and odiorum acriores causae quando iniquae when hatred is built upon a bad foundation it commonly raiseth it self the higher and the reason is because in passions of this nature the lesse we have from the object the more we have from our selves and what is

him from all those Vulture which for the Fine and other moneys would have divided his coat But that which stuck in his stomack the most of all was that the feared Master Alexander should also procure his Pardon of all the rest of the Sentence without making submission to his Majestie and the Court which censured him though that were a little more then the Court had enjoynedto be done to his Majestie yet see how by his good-will he would have interested his Majestie in that businesse more particularly though not more then the Sentence and all to unfold a mysterie which he in his high conceit apprehended was never understood before by all those Apollo's and learned Judges of that Court which by his leave were so well verst and understanding that matter and the project they had in hand as they best knew where the shoe wrang and what they had done in it was for another end then all the wisedom he had could reach unto and for his eyes he was not so clear sighted as to look into a Milstone further then they But this was not all for he saith further Master Alexander lived in Ireland Very proudly and arrogantly apt to fall into that scandalous offence again upon every occasion It should seem by this the Gentleman had a spirit of Prophesie or was well verst in Phisiognomie that he could by a mans countenance tell him his Fortune or that he had some Raptures or Revelations that made him so cunning to foretell things to come for surely to the eyes of those that lived there in conversation with Master Alexander saw no such appearance and as for Master Alexanders own heart and conscience he found himself free from any such inclination and all the following story of his life never yet declared any such matter Then it must needs be that spirit was in the mouth of Ahabs Prophets which deceived him which because it were a shame for the Gentleman to confesse Master Alexander is content that he be silent although his experience hereof by this time sheweth him his errour But look a little further hinc illae lachrimae Master Alexander endeavoured to be Clerk of the Crown and to be joynt Partner with Master Andrews for so he says and here the shoe wrung him and then this Gentlemans great hopes first to be Secundary thereof to his brother in law and in time to be master of the Office himself would be at an end The Proverb is that Murther will out He travelled till he was delivered And I appeal herein if these wilde Gourds spoiled not all the pot of Pottage Dolosus versatur in universalibus And whiles he kept his tongue within his teeth from relating particulars to him that understood not the mysterie of the businesse would peradventure have approved his zeal as if it had been for justice upon one that never offended But since his own interest appears now to be at stake what indifferent man will believe him in all the rest But saith he The Records of that Court coming to his hands Master Alexander may do a world of mischief having so fine a trick of raising and falsifying of Records Surely if the man had been well in his wits and not past shame he would have blushed and trembled to have presented such an untruth unto any man much more unto such great Lords and Peers of the Kingdom but most of all unto a King And I wonder when he perceived such strength of opposition to be against Master Alexander as he did and with whom he practised and thus joyned to ruine him that if he had ever read the Statutes of England and Ireland which I dare say he will tell you he hath done all over and all the Books of the Law besides and understands it far better then Master Alexander which for a quiet life he will grant him to be so into the bargain that he may yet be more conceited of his own worth and unparallel'd abilities but in such case he must I say have found that to rase and falsifie a Record is Felony And if Master Alexander had committed such an act the Court of Star-Chamber by that Sentence would never have troubled themselves for to have studied out means to have buried him alive if they had had that neerer cut to have removed him out of the way But on malice be it And now if the Prayer of this Information be well observed this will appear in its colours to all the world It is prayed That Master Alexanders Pardon might be stayed at the Great Seal Fond man I see thou knewest not that the Lord Coventry had solemnly vowed before and professed that never any Pardon of this Sentence should passe the Great Seal for Master Alexander whiles he was Keeper of it and he made but use of Master Fitz-Gerald in this kinde to give a further colour for this resolution and yet poor man in he mean time like the Fly that sat upon the Axletree of the Cart he verily thought it was he that raised all this dust which was the turning of the wheel And he would have this Pardon stayed too untill Master Alexander should be transmitted by the Lord Deputy of that Kingdom to submit himself unto the said Censure not knowing that in this time he had made Master Fitz-Gerald carry the Rod which was to have whipt his own tail for had he prevailed to have had Master Alexander attached here he had instantly seised upon the Office as wanting one to look over a place of such eminency in the State in the absence of Master Alexander and having been once possessed thereof neither his brother in law nor himself had ever lickt their lips after it should ever have been the better for it And Master Alexander can assure him that if he would have parted with his interest therein unto his Lordship the then Lord Deputy as he was earnestly dealt withall and treated with for that purpose he was promised his Lordships great friendship into the bargain and 100 l. more ready down then Master Fitz-Geralds brother in law gave him for it Then to look a little further in this Information If all this could not be obtained then Master Fitz-Gerald would play at small game rather then to stand out prayed That there might be inserted in the said Pardon a Clause of Proviso that the said Jeromy might not be allowed to practice or bear any Office in Ireland You see how still he pleaded for his own interest and how maliciously he set himself to have destroyed Master Jeromy for now he thought him no longer worthy of his Sirname of Alexander and indeed having ungentleman'd him before and taken his Sirname from him now so if he might have had his will in his desires he would have left him without welt or guard at the last for if he could have prevailed that Master Alexander should not have been admitted to use his Calling neither in England nor Ireland niether

misdemeanour well worthy of sharp and severe punishment for the same and that he shall be utterly disabled to practice as a Counsellour at Law publikely at the Bar or privately in his chamber holding him not worthy to be of the Society of Lincolns-Inne whereof he was a Member have therefore left him to the consideration of the Governours of that House and to pay a Fine of 500 l. to his Majesties use be committed to the prison of the Fleet and before his enlargement out of prison shall publikely at the Bar of this Court in humble and submissive manner acknowledge his great offence against God and to this honourable Court and shall shew himself very pentient and sorrowfull for the same And this honourable Court pronouncing the said Nevil to be clear and free from committing of the said offence of blotting out the words of the copie aforesaid and gravely considering the great trouble losse damage and danger which the said Nevil hath been put unto for the clearing of his reputation in his service to the Court in defence of his own innocency in this Cause and in prosecuting and bringing to censure the said Alexander for the same his great offence and misdemeanour have therefore further Ordered Adjudged and Decreed that the said Jerome Alexander shall satisfie and pay to the said henry Nevil for and towards his losse and damage in that behalf the Sum of fifty pounds of lawfull money of England Jo. Arthur Dep. In this catastrophe and Close of all you may behold a Tragedy acted to the life a poor Gentleman so destroyed as is without all president or example wherein contrary to the greatCharter he hath suffered without mercy or moderation his Estate his Profession his good Name his Wife and Children and all hopes and comforts taken from him but his life at one blowe and that in all outward appearance made so miserable as it had been btter for him that that had been taken from him also for then his sorrows and miseries had been at an end But being thus bereaved of all Society and means of subsistence for the future it must needs subject him unto the contempt and scorn of all his friends and others whatsoever and drive him into despair of ever looking up into the world again And no sooner was this Sentence past but presently aterwards upon that Item thereof made in the said Sentence to theGovernours of Lincolns-Inne they taking all for granted and for truth that was contained therein without ever fearching into the cause thereof further or hearing of Master Alexander in any thing what he could say for himself made the Order following Lincolns-Inne Ad Consilium ibid. tent vicesimo primo die Novem. anno regis Caroli secundo At the Conncel it is ordered That Jerome Alexander one of the utter-Barresters of this House shall from henceforth stand expulsed this Society for sundry foul misdemeanours and crimes by him committed of which he hath been publikely detected and convinced And the chief Butler of this House is to cause his Studie-door to be nailed up or otherwise to be kept fast and likewise his Goods in his Chamber to be seized and kept safe untill the House be saisfied all Duties and Forfeitures any ways owing or due by him for Commons Pensions Vacations Chappel Cellar or otherwise Edward Byshe Custos nigri Libri Thomas talbot of London Gent. doth depose that this Writing is a true copie of the Order made in Lincolus-Inne against Mastere Alexander being examined by the Book of Orders of that time by me the said Thomas Talbot Jurat 5 die Maii 1642. Ro. Riche Which without delary was put in execution and his Chamber taken from him albeit at that time he was indebted nothing unto the House for any Duties or Forfeitures Commons Pensions Vacations Chappel Cellar or otherwise Now here it was not an open enemy that did me this dishonour for then I could have born it neither was it mine adversaries that did herein magnifie themselves against me but they were my companions my guides and mine own familiar friends that took counsel together and walked in the house of God as frinds Psal 55.13 14 15. Yet that God that always takes care of his and never fails to protect the innocent so provided for him in this extremity that within a short time afterwards he gave him such an unexpected being as he must needs confesse he had perished if he had not been undone which no sooner was understood by his adversaries but they began to pursue him again afresh and making use of this Censure do labour with it to crush him in the shell that so he might not rise up in judgement against them for this injustice untill the later day and in the next place this Fine of 500 l. must be begged of the King as by the letters Patents thereof granted unto Mastere Fulwood then Secretary Cooks servant doth appear CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellour under Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of Us our Heirs and Successours now being and that hereafter shall be and to all other the Officers and Ministers of Us Our Heirs and Successours of the said Court of Exchequer and of the Receipt there now being and that hereafter shall be and to all other to whom these presents shall come greeting Where as in Our Court before Us and Our Councel in the Star-Chamber in a Cause there late depending by judgement of the same Court Jerome Alexander Gentleman was amongst other things censured to pay unto Us a Fine of five hundred pounds assessed upon him by the same Court for certain offences misdemeanours and contempts by him done and committed which Fine hath been estreated into Our Exchequer And being informed by the humble Petition of Humfrey Fulwood Gent. that the said Jerome Alexander immediately thereupon made away all his estate and fled into the parts beyong the Seas where he ever since hath and still doth remain and that Our Officers having by all means possible endeavoured the recovering of the same could never finde any estate and since have returned the same Nichelled into the Exchequer as by the Record of that Court will appear and that since the Nichelling of the said Fine he also to whom We had granted the recovering of all Nichelled Fines hath spent six yeers thereabouts and hitherto hath recovered no part thereof So that We without some extraordinary means and endeavours to be used are likely to lose all In consideration whereof and that the said Humfrey Fulwood well hopeth by his industry pains and charges to recover the same or the greatest part thereof he hth humbly besought Us to be graciously pleased to grant unto him the benefit of the said Fine he paying into Our Exchequer the full fifth part of that he shall recover Know ye that We in consideration of the premises and of one hundred

publikely or privately nor to have born any Office What course could he have then taken for a living dig he could not and to beg he was ashamed and what other way had been left him whereby to have maintained himself and family And this this worthy Gentleman would have done to have satisfied his Spleenatick humour Yet like the son of such a father he gives this reason for it In regard saith he of his constant persisting in foul practice having thereby done prejudice to some of the Nobility and severall of the Clergie in that Kingdom You well know who was the father of such untruths from the beginning And Master Alexander is certainly perswaded that it was the invention of his own brain for wrong he never did to any man in that or this Kingdom nor in all the world that he is conscious of unto himself nor did any man there that was not of his Confederacy ever complain of the least ill measure or miscarriage done him by Master Alexander And those Complaints wherein he had a hand albeit they had the said Lord Deputies best countenance and assistance and what he and all the enemies which he had could invent and put upon him yet did Master Alexander clear himself of whatsoever Accusation and left the shame to rest upon them all to whom it justly appertained But peradventure Master Fitz-Gerald will answer this in the language that he informed it in and whatsoever his ill meaning was in the matter will take the words in their proper sense and so t is true Master Alexander by his Practice had done some of the Nobility and some of the Clergie prejudice Sure it was his Profession to do so when he overthrew them in their unjust Suits wherein he was of Counsel against them yet did them no wrong therein nor injury unlesse in Master Fitz-Geralds esteem it was not fair for any man of Law to have opened his mouth against a Lord or Prelate of those times And for the Clergie Master Alexander can but wonder that the should make use of their names in so false a thing as this when t is well known Master Alexander had no such ill opinion amongst the Clergie And that you may perceive that Master Fitz-Gerald circumvented the Lord Primate of Ireland in gaining this Letter from him under such Generals to do Master Alexander a mischief the Information being sent over to Master Alexander out of England by his friends at Court to let him know how his Majestie was thus again possessed and incensed against him he went therewith unto the Lord Primate and shewed his Lordship the same informed him that his name was made use of as one that sent over this Complaint against him which he utterly disclaimed and to go Master Alexander right therein gave him the Certificate under his hand which followeth in these words AT and upon the humble request of Jerome Alexander of Dublin practiser in the Laws informing me that he is credibly given to understand by Letters out of England that his Majestie should be informed by Letters from me hence against him whereby to alien and withdraw his Majesties favour from him in some thing now intended by his Majesty unto him Therefore to satisfie his desires herein and all other whomsoever I do declare hereby That for my part as I never had cause of any Complaint against him now since his residence in this Kingdom have never heard that he demeaned himself here otherwise then orderly and well so I professe that I never wrote any Letters unto his Majestie or any person whatsoever against him either into England or elsewhere but do wish him much good and would rather do him a pleasure then otherways if it should lie in my way Given at my house at Dublin this ninth of November Anno Dom. 1633. Ja. Armachanus Which being sent over for England and shewed unto his Majestie begat a little better opinion in him of Master Alexander then before Yet whensoever his Majestie was sollicited for a Pardon in his behalf the Lord Coventry still was advised with herein as it was his place who so incensed his Majestie still again and again against Master Alexander as for a long time he stopt and kept the current of his Majesties mercy from him All which he did fearing Master Alexanders return and that he would complain of the injustice done him which you may perceive he was no ways able to answer in this matter the same so grosly appearing out of the proceedings that there needed no proof but the Records of his own actions to manifest the same And now after this Master Alexanders father in law Master John Havers and his uncle Captain Edward Havers being well satisfied by Counsel of the iniquity of the Sentence and by Master Noy for one amongst the rest out of their meer goodnesse could hold no longer but were resolved That if the Lord Coventry should interpose in the matter any longer against Master Alexander they would complain of him unto his Majestie yet first they attempted again to obtain his Majesties favour for a Pardon which with much ado his Majestie granted and for which Master Alexander doth own very much to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke who being well informed in the businesse and finding with what a high hand he was opposed by the Lord Keeper for his own ends would not be denied of his Majestie therein by which means it was obtained Yet when it came to be drawn up the Lord Coventry came to the King again and would have perswaded his Majestie against it but finding him and resolved to have it done when he perceived it must passe yet then with his importunities he prevailed to have the Condition inserted in it howsoever That Master Alexander should not use his Profession here in England and after all this yet stopt it at the Seal for some time notwithstanding till Master Noy being then this Majesties Attorney-Generall came to him of purpose and told him reasons why it were better for him to passe it so then to endure a Complaint and thereupon he sealed it much against his will which followeth in these words CHARLES By the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas in Our Court before Our Councell in Our Star-Chamber the seventeenth day of November in the second yeer of Our Reign in a Cause then there late depending between Jerome Alexander Utter-Barrester at the Law Plaintiff against John Yates and others Defendants by Judgement of the same Court the said Jerome Alexander was censured for a foul misdemeanour and offence by him committed in defacing and blotting out of certain words out of the copie of certain Depositions taken in the said Cause for his own advantage and ends against the said John Yates whereby Our said Court was misled in their judgements in the censuring and condemning of the said Yates

Letters and being informed from the Bearer of Master Alexanders abode in the Countrey my Answer was That at his coming to Town the businesse should be dispatched After I have certified you very truely the Letter came not to my hands before the sixth of this Moneth and that he was seen in London the ninth of the same it will easily and plainly be gathered the Gentleman was gone before he vouchsafed so much as to deliver me the Letter And yet I attribute it rather to height of minde and stomack then to his over-dilgence thus first and last to over-run the Constable Again out of my Duty to the orderly and comely proceeding of these Affairs admit me to observe the ill consequence I fear must follow such an ill Instance as this as well in the generall as in this particular In the generall we shall be sure to have Suiters enough in this kinde if that they may thus procure not onely leave to go over but Protections Royall also which may free them not onely from the Civil demands of the Subject but from any Criminall Prosecution against them on His Majesties behalf and not onely so but that the Kings Deputy must be enjoyned to take course for every private mans businesse that hath or may have enough of his Majesties to attend besides And in this particular I know not how it might be thought His Majestie had been informed to give such an especiall and gracious Protection to a person that was but a few yeers since publikely sentenced and branded for a foul and corrupt Forgery in the Starre-Chamber of England So as it is truely to be wished the Gentleman may prove more faithfull to his Lordships commands and services hereafter then in those times it seems he was either to his own conscience or credit And lastly give me leave to acquit my self upon this occasion of a severity imputed unto me by the ignorance and malice of some as if this restraining of mens going over without Licence were a new-found holy-day of mine own and first introduced by me then which God wot nothing more grosly mistaken for it is most plain that by the ancient Law I was penally imposed upon this subject which appears by the Statute in this Kingdom of 25 of H. 6. cap. 2 and 9. which reciting That hereafter no Liege-mans Lands should be seised though out of the Land if so be it were by the Command of the King his Lieutenant c. implies That before that time if they had gone of their own heads their Lands were then and still are to be seised into the Kings hands Next in reason of State and Government it hath always been so declared and practised by many Acts of State and all the Governours successively it being in truth most dangerous to the Crown of England That this subject so much addicted to hold Intelligence and forraign dependances abroad should have liberty to be transported as they list without giving any account at all of themselves to the present Governour And in the last place as a matter much conducing to the good and quiet of this Kingdom they themselves in their twelfth Article of Graces beseech the King it may be so continued And his Majestie by his Princely Answer assents and enjoyns it to be so practised and observed So as after all this there must be many better tokens then any as yet I have heard before the childe can by any interepretation be taken or believed to be mine And thus in all humility I submit the consideration hereof to his Majesties wisedom best able to discern an inconvenience and seasonably to apply the proper remedy resting Your faithfull humble servant Wentworth Dublin this twentieth of November 1637. Received the seventh of December By which you may perceive Ovem in fronte Vulpem in corde gerit he pretends fair but meant nothing lesse then what he said all his endeavour was to have Master Alexander sent to him back again with a Rod at his back as the Earl of Kildare was of whom he gives instance for that purpose But His Majestie having read the Letters was displeased for a time and caused Master Alexander to be committed to the Fleet for this notwithstanding he had His Majesties own License for his coming over And well it was for Master Alexander that he was so imprisoned for though it was conceived too much punishment for so small an offence yet it stopped the Earl of Straffords mouth from all further complaint against him or otherwise he would never have left till he had gotten him to have been sent over back again for Ireland and left unto his mercy You may also perceive how willingly he was mistaken falsly to scandalize and traduce Master Alexander unto His Majestie in the matter of this Sentence terming the Accusation Forgery which he well knew was not so having had a finger in the businesse long before but did it purposely to lay a block in the way of Master Alexanders preferment fearing lest Master Alexander by his friends might procure something of his Majesties Gift that he would not have been well pleased withall and if he and his best friends had not bestirred themselves quickly and to purpose Master Alexander had been so placed by him as must have offended him to the heart which place to have been setled upon Master Alexander he would not have much cared either for his power or anger For the manifestation of this truth also be pleased to see the Warrants for his Commitment and Discharge THese are to will and require you forthwith to receive into your Custodie the body of Jerome Alexander Gent. herewith sent you and him to keep in your Custodie till you shall receive Order for his enlargement And hereof you are not to fail Dated at Westminster 18 Feb. 1637. To the Warden of the Fleet and to his Deputy FRA. WINDEBANK Vera Copia examinator per Tho. Revel Cler. de le Fleet. WHereas by His Majesties Command I committed to your Custody the body of Jerome Alexander His Majesty being graciously pleased that he shall be set at liberty These are therefore to require and authorize you forthwith to enlarge and set at liberty the said Jerome Alexander for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant At my house at Westminster the 15 day of March 1637. To my loving friend the Warden of the Fleet and to his Deputy and Deputies these FRA. WINDEBANK Vera Copia examinator per Tho. Revel Cler. de le Fleet. Thus far you may perceive what oppression Master Alexander still endured by he opposition of these great Favourites of those times yet still God delivered dim out of all But the said Earl of Strafford growing still into more and greater favour with his Majestie every day then other as the businesse he laboured in grew riper and neerer execution And Master Alexander perceiving that albeit the late Lord Viscount Loftus of Ely sometimes Lord Chancellour of Ireland the Lord Mount-Norris