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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83917	Two iudgements of the Lords assembled in Parliament: against John Morris alias Poyntz. Mary his wife. Isabell Smith. Leonard Darby. And John Harris. For forging, framing, and publishing a copy of a pretended act of Parliament.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Wing E2852; Thomason E416_9; ESTC R204473	5,097	12

TWO Iudgements OF THE LORDS Assembled in PARLIAMENT AGAINST John Morris alias Poyntz Mary his wife Isabell Smith Leonard Darby And John Harris For forging framing and publishing a Copy of a pretended Act of PARLIAMENT LONDON Printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley 1647. Die Martis 21 Septemb. 1647. WHereas John Brown Esquire Clerke of the Parliaments did the 25. of June 1647. exhibite a Charge before the Lords in Parliament against John Morris alias Poyntz Mary his wife Isabell Smith Leonard Darby and John Harris for forging framing and publishing a Copy of a pretended Act of Parliament alleadged to have been made at 43 Elizabeth and intituled An Act to inable and make good a conveyance and assurance made of the Mannours of Chipping Onger Northokenden Southokenden and other Lands in the County of Essex and Beaves Markes alias Buries-Markes in London by James Morris Esquire and Gabriel Poyntz Esquire to John Poyntz alias Morris and his Heires and to establish the said Mannours upon the said John Poyntz alias Morris and his heires according to the said Conveyance Whereas in truth there neither is nor ever was any such Act of Parliament And for forging and counterfeiting his hand writing and subscribing to the said Copy Joh. Brown Cleric Parliamentorum And the better to colour their leud practises have charged the said John Brown with the losse of the said Record and denying of his own hand And whereas Sir Adam Littleton Baronet who had good Title to part of the said Manours and Lands as in the right of Dame Audrey his wife whose inheritance thereunto was sought to be impeached by the said Copy of the said pretended Act of Parliament complained likewise against the said persons before their Lordships for the said forgery and publication in that the said John Morris Leonard Darby John Harris and Isab●l Smith did produce the said Copy at Chelmesford at Lent Assizes 1646. for the County of Essex at a Triall in an Ejectory forme brought by Thomas Smith husband of the said Isabell and Lessee of the said John Morris against Josias Clarke Tenant to the said Sir Adam Littleton of part of the said Lands conteyned in the said pretended Act And did plead and affirme the same to be a true Copy of an Act of Parliament And the said Darby and Harris did falsly and perjuriously sweare in open Court at the said Triall that they had examined the said Copy by them produced with the Record of the said pretended Act in the Office of the Clerke of the Parliaments And did there also falsly and perjuriously sweare that they did shew that writing to the Clerke of the Parliaments and that he did acknowledge the said writing to be his own hand Whereas in truth the said subscription to the said pretended Act of Parliament is counterfeit and none of the said Clerke of the Parliaments hand And the said Sir Adam further complained of an Exemplification under the Great Seale of England for countenancing the said forged Copy of the said pretended Act by some undue meanes by the said parties thereunto affixed of the parties shewing whereof proofe was made before their Lordships All which being Crimes of a very high and transcendent nature and do concerne the publique Justice of the Kingdome and of this Honourable House the supreamest Judicatory of this Kingdome That Acts of Parliament the highest Records in this Kingdome should be framed invented forged and given in evidence and published as true Acts of Parliament and the hand of the Clerke of the Parliaments a sworne Officer forged counterfeited and subscribed to the same as that if such bold and andacious acts should not be severely punished no man can be safe in his Life Person or Estate The said John Brown and Sir Adam Littleton desired that the persons aforesaid might forthwith answer the said Charges and that their Lordships would inflict such exemplary punishment upon the offendors as may deterr the like attempts and lewd practises in others and give such fitting reparations as their Lordships in their wisdomes should thinke meet Whereupon the persons aforesaid put in their Answers to the Premisses and pleaded not guilty And after the Case had been divers daies fully heard by Counsell on both sides and witnesses produced at this Barre and the whole matter afterwards throughly weighed debated and fully considered of by the house The Lords in Parliament assembled being fully satisfied of the guilt of the said persons for the aforesaid high Crimes charged against them do award and adjudge 1 That the said John Morris alias Poyntz shall pay as a Fine to our Soveraigne Lord the King the summe of one thousand pounds Isabell Smith two hundred pounds Le●nard Darby foure hundred pounds and John Harris foure hundred pounds 2 That the said parties shall pay to John Browne Esq Clerke of the Parliaments for his dammages five hundred pounds 3 That all the said parties shall before their inlargement out of prison be bound to the good behaviour during their lives before some one of His Majesties Justices of His Bench at Westminster with good sureties 4 That the said Copy of the pretended Act of Parliament falsly affirmed upon Oath to have been subscribed with the name of the said Clerke of the Parliaments intituled An Act to inable and make good a Conveyance and Assurance made of the Mannours of Chipping Onger No thokenden Southokenden and other Lands in the County of Essex and Beaves Markes alias Buries Markes in London by James Morris Esquire and Gabriel Poyntz Esquire to John Poyntz alias Morris and his heires and to establish the said Mannours upon the said John Poyntz alias Morris and his heires according to the said Conveyance is hereby declared to be forged and counterfeit and is by their Lordships adjudged and decreed to be for ever damned and cancelled and never to be pleaded in any Court or Cause whatsoever nor to be admitted to be given in evidence there being no Record of any such peetended Act of Parliament to warrant the same 5 That all the said severall Persons hereby adjudged guilty of the said crimes shall ever hereafter be made uncapable to be witnesses in any cause whatsoever 6 That John Brown Esquire Clerk of the Parliaments is in the judgement of this House free and clear of and from all and every the aspersions falsities and charges of the said John Morris alias Poyntz Isabell Smith Leonard Darby and John Harris charged uttered divulged and given out by them against him concerning the matters herein mentioned And that this Judgement shall be openly read and published in the face of the County of Essex at the next Assizes to be held for that County 7 That the said Parties shall bring or cause to be brought into this House by the first day of October next o●e exemplification under the Great Seal of England concerning the Manner of little Munden in the County of Hertford And the aforesaid exemplification of