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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19613	To his sacred maiestie, the lords spiritual, and temporal, and the House of Commons in this present Parliament assembled	Crokey, Benjamin.	1625 (1625)	STC 6045; ESTC S114520	38,936	77

done but by the like practices of Smith there did come to the place assigned for execution of the said Commission but three c Certificate of the Commission Commisioners of 7. that had signed the Warrants when no lesse then foure could execute it whereby that Commission was also avoided and all Crokeyes labours and charges lost 21. That in the meane time the Commission was so kept back Smith practiced with Sir Iohn Pointz Knight and one Henry Minors to take a Commission forth of the Exchequer whereby to finde the possessions of the said Schoole to be d Witnesses concealed as Chantry lands giuen to superstitious vse and within the Statute 1. Edward 6. wherein Smith so handled the matter as that Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors did take such a Commission forth of the Exchequer and being Patentees e Bond from Sir Iohn Pointz and minors to Crokey were also therein made Commissioners 22 That the said Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors about August Anno 1618. went to Tidbury in the said County of Glocester for execution of their said Commission where hauing a Iurie f Witnesses of simple men some whereof being of Smiths kindred yet that notwithstanding they would not proceed at that time because Crokey was there ready with all things for defence of the Schoole and possessions thereof and amongst other things with a Case g Cas drawne and resolued on● by Sir Henry Yelverton and Sir Thomas Couentry his late Maiesties Councell at Law vnder their hands affirming that the said Schoole and possessions were free from superstitious vses and no way within the said Statute of 1. Edward 6. whereupon Sir Iohn Pointz soone after laboured Crokey very earnestly for a composition which Crokey vtterly refused and soone after that Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors met againe vpon their said Commission at Wickware in the said County of Glocester viz. the 13. of h Witnesses and Warrant from Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors October 1618. At which time Crokey likewise attended but before they sate both Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors earnestly pressed Crokey to a composition which Crokey againe vtterly refused as before whereupon they proceeded with a like simple Iurie as they best pleased notwithstanding Crokey stood in i Witnesses defence of the Schoole in all he might and so it was found that the said Schoole and lands thereto belonging were giuen to superstitious vses and within the Statute of 1. Edw 6. and yet the said Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors laboured againe at that time with Crokey for a Composition and offered their k Bond. Bond of 2000. pound to Crokey with condition for the assuring of Warrens Court to Crokey and his heires in Fee farme and to set him in possession thereof And albeit Crokey well did know that all their offers were but to intrap and to draw him from defending the Schoole and that by Smiths plot and practice yet Crokey also perceiuing that they profered him some aduantage whereby they might afterwards intrap themselues was content to take such a Bond so as he might haue the drawing of the Bond and Condition which they assented gladly vnto and so Crokey did cause the Bond and Condition to be drawne wherein he caused Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors to bee mentioned both Patentees and Commissioners which was all that thereby Crokey l Witnesse Master Hart. sought to the end the practices by them and Smith might the better appeare Crokey then knowing no other or better way for discouery of their said practices neither did Crokey so much as promise much lesse assure to them any thing at all but forthwith shewed to the Lords grace of Canterbury the said Bond and fully acquainted his Grace therewith and of all their other practices against the Schoole as formerly he had done 23. That thereupon his Grace sent his Soliciter m Witnesse Master Hart. Mr. Hart with Crokey to the Lord chiefe Baron of the Exchequer for trauersing of the said vndue proceedings reuersing of the said Inquisition and according to the Lord cheefe Barons direction Crokey moued that Court of Exchequer by his Councell whereupon a day was giuen to Sir Iohn Pointz and Minors to come in for maintaining their said Inquisition which they refusing to doe the said Inquisition and Commission by an expresse n Order order in that Court were suppressed and made voide 24. That Smith to manifest his craft in dawbing did then also moue the Court of Exchequer by his Councell for making voide the said Inquisition and Commission whereupon in the said o Order Order the name of Smithes Councell was foisted in stead of Crokeys Councell as if Smith had beene the chiefe and onely opposor and not the procurer of the said last mentioned Commission and Inquisition whereby Smith did not onely delude the said Court of Exchequer but the Country also for when he perceiued that Plot with Pointz and Minors would not take then Smith began to make a shew of a pious intent to make and erect a new foundation of that Schoole but yet in his owne name and for his owne glory whereby to outface and blindfold the world that his former practices for supplanting thereof might not be seene And to that purpose indowed the Schoole with p Confessed in Smiths Decree in Chancery Sect. 41. num ibid. 13. 12. pound Rent per annū out of her possessions of 300. pound per annum all being in the hand of him and his Lessees And for divulging of that dissembled pietie and bounty therein ordeyned 25. Feoffees for establishing of that his new false foundation of the Schoole and possessions wherein hee had not nor hath any interest lawfull at all 25. That Smith knowing his owne guiltinesse doubted that one Prichard then as Master of that Schoole placed there by Smith did incline to the assistance of Crokey for righting the Schoole And in that doubt Smith set q Witnesses vpon Prichard with diuers high and threatening speaches and warned Prichard that at a certaine day by Smith peremptorily prefixed Prichard should depart from the Schoole as a professed maintainer thereof against Smith or else that Prichard must expect to be by Smith thrown out by violence insomuch that vpon Prichards slighting of Smiths threatenings Smith in outragious violent manner being accompanied with some 20 r Witnesses men came to the Schoole and threatened to vntyle the Schoole-house and to throw Prichard out if hee would not presently depart and by those meanes and by frighting Prichards wife being then in childe-bed Prichard was inforced to leaue the Schoole to Smith and so vpon composition left it 26. That Crokey moued the Lord Chancellor for a third Commission vpon the said Certificate from three of the Commissioners in the said second Commission which notwithstanding and though Crokey had obtained diuers Commissions before yet upon Smithes vntrue suggestions and like practices it was so ordered the ſ Order 16. of